New Book: "Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki"

[kpete]

Run time: 02:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYvodtZDTc   Posted on YouTube: July 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: Sinclair34 Views on YouTube: 6839   Posted on DU: August 02, 2011 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 1112

 


The Great Hiroshima Cover-up: How the U.S. Hid Shocking Historic Footage for Decades

In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan 66 years ago this week, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included vivid color footage shot by U.S. military crews and black-and-white Japanese newsreel film.

The public did not see any of the newsreel footage for 25 years, and the shocking U.S. military film remained hidden for nearly four decades. While the suppression of nuclear truths stretched over decades, Hiroshima sank into "a hole in human history," as the writer Mary McCarthy observed. The U.S. engaged in a costly and dangerous nuclear arms race. Thousands of nuclear warheads remain in the world, often under loose control; the U.S. retains its "first-strike" nuclear policy; and much of the world is partly or largely dependent on nuclear power plants, which pose their own hazards.

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When that footage finally emerged, I spoke with and corresponded with the man at the center of this drama: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Daniel A. McGovern, who directed the U.S. military film-makers in 1945-1946, managed the Japanese footage, and then kept watch on all of the top-secret material for decades. I also interviewed one of his key assistants, Herbert Sussan (later a pioneering TV director and producer) and some of the Japanese survivors they filmed in early 1946.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. Before I turned on the clip. .. . .

. . . . my first thought was of "Hiroshima in America," the brilliant book by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell, published in the mid 1990s. An absolute must read for anyone who still believes the official version of how The Bomb ended The War and saved thousands of American lives.

Then I turned on the clip, and I see this new book is by Greg Mitchell, and I immediately stopped the clip to write this to thank you, kpete, for posting this. I will be scraping together my pennies to buy this book.

Now I'll finish watching.

Edited to add -- the Amazon Kindle e-book is only $3.99. I've already purchased it.


TG