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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  10/29/2021
  

  The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb

  by Alex Wellerstein

  Read a detailed account of the moment in the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union contemplated, then developed and tested, nuclear weapons of horrifying power. 

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• 9/26/2021
  

  The Japanese Surrender in 1945 is Still Poorly Understood

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace

  American diplomats and military leadership in 1945 believed Japan was close to a negotiated surrender without the use of the atomic bomb, a history that has since been replaced by the myth that the bomb saved lives. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/6/2021
  

  Filmmaker Greg Mitchell on the Government's Suppression of Scientists' Film about A-Bombs

  "I’ve always wanted to promote an honest debate about what happened. I want all of the facts out there. I want Americans to have conversations and examine moral issues."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/9/2021
  

  A Black Reporter Exposed Official Lies about the Atomic Bomb

  Charles Loeb's reporting defied the official government line that radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Japan was harmless, and resonated with Black readers who suspected a racist motive in dropping the new weapons on Japanese cities. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/9/2021
  

  A Star Times Reporter was Paid by Government Agencies He Covered

  Historian Alex Wellerstein's book is one of two that exposes the self-dealing of reporter William Laurence and his complicity with propaganda about the effects of nuclear weapons. 

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• 5/30/2021
  

  Review: Lesley Blume's “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World”

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Journalist Lesley Blume's book "Fallout" ably tells the story about how John Hersey and the New Yorker navigated government censorship and political opposition to publish Hersey's "Hiroshima," a foundational work in later movements to prevent nuclear war.

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  3/29/2021
  

  ‘Atomic Cover-Up’ Reveals A Previously Unseen Story Of Human Devastation

  The new documentary "Atomic Cover-Up"  reminds that "people of goodwill can differ over whether we did the right thing in order to bring a terrible war to its conclusion or if, instead, we committed unforgivable crimes against humanity. What none of us can do is look away."

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• SOURCE: Greg Mitchell
  3/22/2021
  

  “Atomic Cover-Up” Premieres

  by Greg Mitchell

  Documentarian Greg Mitchell's new movie about the two film crews – one Japanese, one American – who recorded the human toll of the Hiroshima bombing and had their footage suppressed has premiered. Find out how to view it. 

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• SOURCE: Cinejoy
  3/16/2021
  

  Atomic Cover-Up

  by Greg Mitchell

  Greg Mitchell's Atomic Cover-Up premiers this month and tells the story of two film crews, one Japanese and one from the U.S. Army, whose footage of the human toll of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings was seized and suppressed by the U.S. goverment. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  9/2/2020
  

  Cancer Cases Likely in Those Exposed to New Mexico Atomic Test

  National Cancer Institute findings suggest that it is likely that some people exposed to fallout from the Trinity atomic bomb tests got cancer as a result. However, the incomplete data available make it unclear if the findings will help advance legislation to compensate "downwinders" for health damage.   

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Was there a Third A-Bomb? A Fourth? A Fifth?

  by Don Farrell

  Japan's surrender makes the question a matter of speculation, but the history of military facilties built on Tinian in the Mariana Islands suggests that American military leadership was preparing to assemble many more atomic bombs should the Pacific war have continued. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/6/2020
  

  'And The World Went Crazy': How Hollywood Changed After Hiroshima

  Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s wrestled with the idea of a planet without humanity. After "Dr. Strangelove" satirized any effort to treat nuclear war seriously on the big screen, Hollywood viewed the bomb through schlock and horror, until the 1980s revival of sentiment for disarmament and "The Day After."

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• 8/7/2020
  

  Hiroshima (1953, Hideo Sekigawa)

  View a segment from, and read about, Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film "Hiroshima."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2020
  

  Sunday Reading: Hiroshima

  Read John Hersey's influential 1946 account of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, along with related articles from The New Yorker. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Worked Under Mushroom Clouds

  Photographs commissioned by Japanese newspapers in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were suppressed by American occupation authorities in both countries. A new book offers Americans a new opportunity to grasp the physical and human toll of nuclear weapons. 

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• 8/9/2020
  

  75 Years Later, Purple Hearts Made for an Invasion of Japan are Still Being Awarded

  by D.M. Giangreco

  There has been much debate about how close the United States was to victory in the Pacific before the atomic bombs were dropped 75 years ago this week. But in 1945, the military ordered so many Purple Heart medals in anticipation of an invasion of Japan that medals from that supply are still being awarded today.

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Unconditional Surrender: The Domestic Politics of Victory in the Pacific

  by Marc Gallicchio

  The terms on which the United States pressed Japan for surrender were shaped by American domestic politics; New Deal Democrats and their liberal allies succeeded in convincing Harry Truman that it was necessary to dramatically rebuild Japan's society along more social-democratic lines. 

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• SOURCE: Stars and Stripes
  8/4/2020
  

  ‘Irresistible Weapon’: Historians Say American History Oversimplifies Atomic Bombings On Japan

  Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., author and blogger on atomic bomb history, said time has smoothed the wrinkles and simplified the facts that are often taught about the first and, so far, only wartime use of atomic weapons.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  8/4/2020
  

  The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

  Extensive Compilation of Primary Source Documents Explores Manhattan Project, Eisenhower’s Early Misgivings about First Nuclear Use, Curtis LeMay and the Firebombing of Tokyo, Debates over Japanese Surrender Terms, Atomic Targeting Decisions, and Lagging Awareness of Radiation Effects

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/4/2020
  

  He Was an American Child in Hiroshima on the Day the Atomic Bomb Dropped

  Unknown numbers of American children of Japanese ancestry were stuck in Japan because of visits to family when war broke out; some were in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.