After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation
Dublin Core
Title
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation
Subject
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945
Electronic Resource Item Type Metadata
Book Title
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
Document Type
Book chapter
Language
English
Region
Japan
Access
Open Access
Abstract
In the months after the end of the war, the US went to great lengths to cover up the truth about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and hide the horror from the American people. Even while the rough enormous casualty figures were public, the specifics of the destruction and the experiences of those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki emerged only slowly. Japanese-American correspondent Leslie Nakashima, who had spent the war in Japan, traveled to Hiroshima in late August to search for his mother and filed a dispatch with United Press on August 27, 1945, that was the first widespread report about the scale of devastation.
Cataloger
Robin Cole
Citation
“After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: How Allied Media Reported on the Atomic Bombs’ Devastation,” ICMGLT Digital Library, accessed November 3, 2026, https://library.icmglt.org/items/show/715.