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    Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
    Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
    Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
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    Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

    Written by Lesley M.M. Blume

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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    ONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR *

    New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives.

    Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating effects of these then-experimental weapons. For nearly a year the cover-up worked—until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed.

    Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II.

    Released on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved—and can still save—the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 4, 2020
    ISBN9781797108872
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    Lesley M.M. Blume

    Lesley M.M. Blume is a Los Angeles-based journalist, author, and biographer. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Paris Review, among many other publications. Her last nonfiction book, Everybody Behaves Badly, was a New York Times bestseller.  

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    • 5/5
      The back story to the writing and publication of John Hersey's "Hiroshima" in 1946 is a new perspective. It is enlightening to learn the extent censorship occurred during the WWII and subsequent years. This book is one that I will listen to again.

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    • 5/5
      It is an enlightening review of the beginning of the “Atomic era” and its potential ramifications.
    • 4/5
      A stark reminder of what why we should always defend press freedom, as well as a grim reminder of what good journalism can do to save us from ourselves.
    • 5/5
      Great story about the story that changed the world! Terrific