![]() On how reporters had limited access to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and their reports were often censored The American officials were saying, for the most part, these are the defeated Japanese trying to create international sympathy, to create better terms for themselves and the occupation - ignore them. And they said that there was no residual radiation whatsoever, and that therefore, any news that was filtering over from Japan were "Tokyo tales." So right away they went into overdrive to contain that narrative. Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer themselves went to the Trinity site of testing and brought a junket of reporters so they could show off the area. had decimated these populations with a really destructive radiological weapon. created a PR campaign to really combat the notion that the U.S. ![]() On America's PR campaign and cover-up of the radiation aftermath military is scrambling to find out how the radiation of the bombs is affecting the physical landscape, how it's affecting human beings, because they're about to send tens of thousands occupation troops into Japan. And so Americans, they know that it's a mega-weapon, but they don't understand the full nature of the weapons, the radiological effects are not in any way highlighted to the American public, and in the meantime, the U.S. He says these bombs are the equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But in terms of the radiation - even in Truman's announcement of the bomb - he's painting the bombs in conventional terms. There were rubble pictures, and also obviously people are seeing the mushroom cloud photos taken from the bombers themselves or from recon missions. Landscape photographs were released to newspapers showing the decimation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the immediate weeks, very little A lot of it was really painted in landscape devastation. On how military generals focused on physical devastation when they testified before Congress about the effects of the atomic bomb What was not stated was the fact that this bomb had radiological qualities, blast survivors on the ground would die in an agonizing way for the days and the weeks and months and years that followed. It would take quite a bit of time and reporting to bring that out.Įverybody who heard the announcement knew that they were dealing with something totally unprecedented, not just in the war, but in the history of human warfare. Americans had no idea about the nature of these then-experimental weapons - namely that these are weapons that continue to kill long after detonation.
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