Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world /
Blume, Lesley M. M.,
Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world / Fall out. Lesley M.M. Blume. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. - ix, 276 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-257) and index.
The picture does not tell the whole story -- Scoop the world -- MacArthur's closed kingdom -- Six survivors -- Some events at Hiroshima -- Detonation -- Aftermath.
Bklst 07/01/2020. LJ Jun 2020. PW 06/22/2020. Kirkus 05/01/2020.
"Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked-until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret-even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published "Hiroshima" in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II."--publisher's website.
9781982128517 1982128518
2020000055
Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
Hersey, John, 1914-1993. Hiroshima.
World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--United States.
Atomic bomb victims--Press coverage--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--United States.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Japan.
Atomic bomb--Public opinion.--United States
Atomic bomb--Government policy--History--United States--20th century.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Press coverage--United States.--Bombardment, 1945
D767.25 / .H6 B58 2020
Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world / Fall out. Lesley M.M. Blume. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. - ix, 276 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-257) and index.
The picture does not tell the whole story -- Scoop the world -- MacArthur's closed kingdom -- Six survivors -- Some events at Hiroshima -- Detonation -- Aftermath.
Bklst 07/01/2020. LJ Jun 2020. PW 06/22/2020. Kirkus 05/01/2020.
"Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked-until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret-even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published "Hiroshima" in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II."--publisher's website.
9781982128517 1982128518
2020000055
Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
Hersey, John, 1914-1993. Hiroshima.
World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--United States.
Atomic bomb victims--Press coverage--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--United States.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Japan.
Atomic bomb--Public opinion.--United States
Atomic bomb--Government policy--History--United States--20th century.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Press coverage--United States.--Bombardment, 1945
D767.25 / .H6 B58 2020