Atomic Bomb Physical Damage, Nagasaki, 11/12/1945 - 01/10/1946

This sobering archival footage, filmed between December 11, 1945, and January 10, 1946, exposes the enduring wreckage left by the atomic bomb "Fat Man," detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Captured during U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) assessments, the film sweeps across a city reduced to rubble—shattered concrete, twisted steel, and scorched remnants of homes and factories, all radiating from ground zero. From displaced bridges to crumpled industrial sites like the Mitsubishi Ordnance Plant, the scenes reveal the blast’s relentless force, months after the initial explosion. A stark chronicle of destruction, this footage grips history buffs and those probing the atomic bomb’s lasting scars on Nagasaki’s landscape and soul.