Atomic Bomb

I think that this video's main purpose was to show that the U.S. is remorseful about harming so many people. The way the video was presented made everything seem so sad. I thought the use of video and the word choice helped convey the message very well.

I think NBC aired this piece in 1995 to show the world that the U.S. does have regret about dropping the a-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although some of the WWII veterans were saying how dropping the a-bomb saved millions of lives from being lost in an invasion, the way NBC portrays the a-bomb dropping and the effects it had make people look at th U.S. as a "nice" country instead of a "jerk" country who has no feelings for the lost lives of innocent people. To me, this clip tells people that we as the U.S. have legitimate feelings for what we did and for the lives we affected. Also, this video tells us about how much information the government kept from the people. At the end of the video, you see all the people celebrating in the streets only knowing that Japan surrendered. What the government did not tell these people is that more than 70,000 japanese people were killed in Hiroshima and even more in Nagasaki. Today, people would have known the affects of the bomb the next day.