Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
940.5425 BLUME
1 available
940.5425 BLUME
1 available
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult) | 940.5425 BLUME | Shelving Cart |
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Subjects
LC Subjects
Atomic bomb -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- Public opinion.
Atomic bomb victims -- Press coverage -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- United States.
Hersey, John, -- 1914-1993.
Hersey, John, -- 1914-1993. -- Hiroshima
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Press coverage -- United States.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Japan.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- Public opinion.
Atomic bomb victims -- Press coverage -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- United States.
Hersey, John, -- 1914-1993.
Hersey, John, -- 1914-1993. -- Hiroshima
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Press coverage -- United States.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Japan.
Other Subjects
More Details
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-257) and index.
Description
Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. 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. Blume shares this piece of hidden history, and shows how this knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using nuclear weapons since the end of World War II. -- adapted from jacket