Censored Nagasaki Report Revealed

The Chicago Daily News’s George Weller was the first American reporter to view the aftermath of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Weller’s report, censored by Douglas MacArthur, was discovered by Weller’s son in 2003. Japan’s Mainichi Daily News runs the report (after several US papers turned it town, according to the son). Excerpts: In swaybacked or flattened skeletons of the Mitsubishi arms plants is revealed what the atomic bomb can do to steel and stone, but what the riven atom can do against human flesh and bone lies hidden in two hospitals of downtown Nagasaki. Look at the pushed-in … Continue reading Censored Nagasaki Report Revealed