BY RYUICHI KANARI STAFF WRITER
2011/07/26
The private notes of the head of a U.S. cultural center in Hiroshima revealed that Washington targeted the city’s residents with pro-nuclear propaganda in the mid-1950s after deciding a swing in their opinions was vital to promoting the use of civil nuclear power in Japan and across the world.
The organizers of a U.S.-backed exhibition that toured 11 major Japanese cities from November 1955 to September 1957 initially considered opening the first exhibition in Hiroshima.
According to the private papers of Abol Fazl Fotouhi, former president of the American Cultural Center in Hiroshima, the idea of choosing the city was proposed at a meeting of officials of the U.S. Information Service in December 1954.
Continue reading at U.S. used Hiroshima to bolster support for nuclear power
◇ Article in Japanese:
・米、原子力ＰＲで広島利用を検討 ５４年の博覧会開催時 via asahi.com
