The Hiroshima Cover-up via Democracy Now!

Posted on 2011/08/15 by norma field

A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller’s firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.

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3 Responses to The Hiroshima Cover-up via Democracy Now!

  1. norma field says:
    2011/08/15 at 1:08 pm

    It’s sobering to realize that Mr. Weller’s son could find no US publishers interested in his father’s first-hand account of Nagasaki, written one month after the bombing.

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