Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Look Back at the US Atomic Bombing 64 Years Later

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat | Aug. 10, 2009 (Special Report)

(Video) We play the report of Wilfred Burchett, the first journalist to make it into Hiroshima, as well as Anthony Weller, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Weller, who was the first reporter to enter Nagasaki after the bombing, and we hear from Hiroshima survivor Shigeko Sasamori. Full Story »

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Subjects: World
Topics: Nuclear Weapons, War, Japan
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 10, 2009 - 7:23 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 10, 2009

Notes from the first American journalist into Nagasaki after the bomb provide insights into the horrible radiation sickness that was censored so Americans could not know about it. "I write this as a warning to the world." The Hibakusha talking provides the personal horror of the war crime.

Disarm from nukes now.

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