5/22/2023 0 Comments Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume![]() ![]() They were John Hersey, then a 31-year old former war correspondent for Time magazine, who had already won a Pulitzer for his novel A Bell for Adano founding New Yorker editor Harold Ross and Ross’s deputy editor William Shawn. S and then in book form, across the world. Blume examines the extraordinary story behind “one of the deadliest and most consequential government cover-ups of modern times” – the long-term consequences of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and the unlikely trio of journalists who brought Hiroshima and the story of six survivors of the atomic bombing to millions of readers, first as a magazine article in the. And all but lost in the landslide of Trump-related books was Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World. ![]() The 75th anniversary of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was overshadowed last month by the turmoil of current American pandemics. I heartily recommend Blume’s excellent Fallout, which ably synthesizes large amounts of archival, historical, and biographical material from three continents.įallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World by Lesley M. ![]()
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