How were Hiroshima and Nagasiki bombs filmed? Did the pilots survive?

[tsuwal]

The bomb kills everything around it so i was wondering if the people who shot the bomb where safe or even if the pilots health was affected by the bomb..

 

[phinds]

The bomb kills everything around it so i was wondering if the people who shot the bomb where safe or even if the pilots health was affected by the bomb..

As I recall, there was a second plane on the Hiroshima run and it took the pics. Yes, everyone survived in the planes and there have been no reports of adverse affects on the aircraft crew. They were not THAT near the blast and were not there for long.

 

[DiracPool]

Yes, Tibbets recounts in the many WW2 documentaries I've watched over the years how he was instructed to make a "hard right" (or left) at a certain angle to avoid the effects of the blast. But it worked.

 

[DiracPool]

As I recall, there was a second plane on the Hiroshima run and it took the pics. Yes, everyone survived in the planes and there have been no reports of adverse affects on the aircraft crew. They were not THAT near the blast and were not there for long.

They screwed up, though, and only got one pic, the iconic one where the cloud slants to the right (or left) at the top.

They cheat, though, and always intermix footage of later bombings to the Hiroshima one to make it look more dramatic. Drives me nuts, because it's historical inaccuracy, and if there's anything I HATE, it's historical innacuracies.

In fact, I just watched a show yesterday, one of the "Secret war" shows on the military channel called "Hitlers atom bomb" where they said that the allies needed to destroy the plant in Norway making heavy water to prevent Hitler from being able to produce the Plutonium that was needed for an atom bomb. While they were saying that, they were showing animated footage from an entirely different documentary showing the uranium gun bomb used at Hiroshima. I mean, I'm not an expert, but the plutonium model was not the gun type, but that's what it seemed to allude to, so it bugged me. The series, "Sectret war," is great otherwise. Maybe someone can cross check my analysis.

 

[LudusRex]

The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not filmed in the traditional sense, as there were no cameras on board the planes that dropped them. However, there were several eyewitness accounts of the bombings and some footage taken by the US military after the fact.

As for the pilots, they were flying at a high altitude and were not directly affected by the bombs. However, they were exposed to high levels of radiation and may have experienced long-term health effects. It is well documented that many of the pilots and crew members involved in the bombings suffered from various forms of cancer and other illnesses attributed to their exposure to radiation.

The bombs themselves were designed to kill everything within a certain radius, so it is unlikely that anyone in the immediate vicinity of the explosion would have survived. However, there were some survivors who were further away from the blast and were shielded by buildings or other structures.

It is important to remember that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tragic and devastating events, and the long-term effects on both the pilots and the survivors are still being studied and understood. As scientists, it is our responsibility to continue researching and learning from these events in order to prevent similar tragedies in the future.