Friday, August 5, 2011

The Nation: The Cover-Up of the Horrors of Hiroshima


The Great Hiroshima Cover-up Greg Mitchell August 3, 2011 http://www.thenation.com/blog/162543/great-hiroshima-cover?rel=emailNation

Excerpted:

"In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan sixty-six years ago this week, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included vivid color footage shot by U.S. military crews and black-and-white Japanese newsreel film.

"The public did not see any of the newsreel footage for twenty-five years, and the shocking US military film remained hidden for nearly four decades. While the suppression of nuclear truths stretched over decades, Hiroshima sank into “a kind of hole in human history,” as the writer Mary McCarthy observed"

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