By Amy Goodman and David Goodman

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.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9680.htm



Film Suppressed:

The US Government Hides Hiroshima Nagasaki Footage For Decades: Footage of the devastation after the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that was commissioned by the US occupying forces was suppressed for decades.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/05/1549202



Hiroshima Cover-up: Stripping the War Department's Timesman of His Pulitzer:

The New York Times reporter who covered the bombings was on the US government payroll. Journalists Amy Goodman and David Goodman call for the Pulitzer Board to strip Laurence and his paper, The New York Times, of the undeserved prize.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/05/1548241



The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II:

The National Security Archive publishes the most comprehensive on-line collection to date of declassified U.S. government documents on the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm


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