78 Years Ago Today: First Outsider Warns of ‘Atomic Plague’ in Hiroshima

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The Man Who Knew Too Much Three weeks after Japan’s emperor announced a surrender, on September 2, 1945, Australian war reporter Wilfred Burchett left Tokyo by train, intent on reaching distant Hiroshima before any of his journalistic colleagues, who were banned from taking … Continue reading "78 Years Ago Today: First Outsider Warns of ‘Atomic Plague’ in Hiroshima"
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