Today is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. And we've just learned that the U.S. government engaged in a massive campaign to keep journalists from covering the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and launched smear campaigns to discredit those journalists who dared to expose the truth.
From the Baltimore Sun:
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A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller's firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.
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And for an extensive online collection of declassified U.S. government documents on the atomic bomb and the end of World War II, click here.
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