I found this article fascinating, but I don't post as any kind of statement on our use of nuclear weapons. The debate over that event I leave to the historians.
What I'd like to highlight is this: can you imagine any of the CNN, MSNBC, or FauxNews reporters attempting this kind of reporting? I wonder if Weller suspected his reporting might be censored and got the damn story anyway?
"By hiring a Japanese rowboat, catching trains and later posing as a U.S. Army colonel, Weller, an award-winning reporter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, slipped into Nagasaki in early September 1945, Mainichi said, about a month after the Aug. 9 bombing that killed 70,000 people.
In a Sept. 8, 1945, dispatch, Weller wrote of walking through the city -- a 'wasteland of war' -- and finding evidence to back the talk of radiation fallout in American radio news reports.
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Weller, who died in 2002, was the first foreign journalist to set foot in the devastated city, which Gen. Douglas MacArthur, head of the U.S. occupation in Japan, had designated off-limits to reporters, the newspaper said."
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