Because of the initial nuclear explosion, the media focused only on material damage, and the United States military continued to describe it as a “very pleasant way to die.”
No one knows anything about nuclear radiation. A long time later, the truth is known, but there is no choice: It’s their home. Where else can I move?
This truth began with a small number of conscientious journalists who went deep into the nuclear bombing centre despite American military obstruction… and the great scientist Einstein, both with the development of the atomic bomb and with the story of the nuclear explosion, had a delicate connection.
In 1946, Einstein submitted a proposal to a publishing house in New York for the printing of a special New Yorker magazine.
It used to be an easy, funny magazine, but he wanted to order 1,000 copies to his colleague, the scientists of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists.
“Mr. Hessy (author of this magazine) honestly depicts the terrible effects of (the atomic bomb) on humans … an atomic bomb can cause unprecedented damage.
This picture is relevant to the future of humankind and must be brought to the attention of all responsible men and women. I’m sorry.
The bomb, known as the little boy, exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. In a few seconds, nearly 80,000 people died and the whole city turned into purgatory.
And the reporter John Hershey was published in 1946, a year after the explosion. During this entire period, no other journalist was concerned about this landmark event.
What did the U.S. military do to journalists?
What happened to Hiroshima after the explosion?
To what extent would an atomic bomb harm human beings?
More importantly, through Hersi’s story, we will see how people in the flood of the times are officially blinded and how the truth is discovered.
I. Two journalists
Early in the autumn of 1945, a group of Allied journalists, accompanied by United States Department of Defense officials, travelled between the ruins of Hiroshima. It was less than a month before the first atomic bomb exploded in human history.
The members of the press corps, who came from the New York Times, Associated Press, the National Broadcasting Corporation, the Colombian Broadcasting Corporation and dozens of heavy-pound media, were carefully screened by the military and transported together to Hiroshima. Their uniforms were uniform, with a unified mandate and even the duration of interviews. They are required to cover only a few hours in situ at each location.
The journalists were on the same pace and their eyes swept through the same burning ground. They know that the world is waiting to see what happened in Hiroshima through their eyes.
A Allied journalist stood in the ruins of Hiroshima in September 1945, and his identity was a mystery. Source: UPI
Suddenly, a colleague was found, Wilfred Burchet of the London Daily Express. He disobeyed General MacArthur’s orders and moved out of unity to Hiroshima in front of everyone.
Borgchet sat in the midst of the ashes of the burning and could find human bones without digging deep under the scorched soil.
He’s madly banging on the Emass and the typewriter.
He warns the world:
“In Hiroshima, 30 days later, those who were not injured by the catastrophe are still dying in mysterious and terrible circumstances of an unknown thing, which I can only call the atomic plague. I’m sorry.
Atom plague, is that true? Didn’t the explosion end and death cease? People outside Hiroshima are confused. When they turned the New York Times, they found the report to be the opposite.
The newspaper journalist Bill said that there was no nuclear radiation in Hiroshima’s ruins and Japan was exaggerating that they were seeking sympathy and trying to make people forget Japan’s beasts in the war.
In another story, William L. Lawrence, a senior scientific journalist in the newspaper, also said that everything about Japanese casualties was “fake and propaganda”. (The latter proved that Lawrence was paid by the United States Department of War. I’m not sure.
Then who should I trust? The choice does not seem to be difficult. Because the United States military also came forward and said that Bernhardt was influenced by Japanese propaganda.
General Groves, the director of the Manhattan project, denied the claim of radiation poisoning and later, while acknowledging the existence of nuclear radiation, claimed that it was a “very pleasant way to die”.
In fact, it is not the only person who makes a disharmony.
The Chicago Daily News also wrote a story about the tragedy of another nuclear-explosive city, Nagasaki, spilling more than 25,000 words and disappearing.
There is a massive cover-up, which is behind the scenes. As a consequence, the mass destruction of nuclear weapons is not recognized.
The use of this new type of weapon has been enthusiastically endorsed, and in a poll in New York City, the percentage was once as high as 85 per cent, and 23 per cent of respondents wanted to drop more atomic bombs before Japan surrendered.
Bechert was very worried that his Atom Plague was not speaking for Japanese war criminals, but rather warning all mankind of the threat of nuclear weapons.
The threat is so great that it is unknown. Perhaps in the next war, any city in the world, New York, Paris, London, Shanghai… could be another Hiroshima.
Day by day, new things happen every day for people to pursue. By 1946, most people couldn’t think of any reason to care about what happened a year ago.
What happened to 250,000 civilians in Hiroshima remains a mystery. But Birchett can’t do anything anymore. General MacArthur ‘ s military examiners not only confiscated his film but also revoked his press clearance.
But there was a journalist who felt wrong from the beginning when the atomic bomb was thrown into the centre of the city — a point about which the military initially lied, saying that the place of launch was industrial and military bases.
John Hessy looked at the reports in the various media and found that they all had one thing in common: to focus on material damage, such as Bill in The New York Times, who said that about 68,000 buildings had been destroyed; but very few journalists had come to pay attention to the story of the innocent civilians in the war, with the exception of Birchet. It was the first in the Western media to mention nuclear radiation and its terrible effects on the human body.
John Hesse.
There must be countless more hidden information, and the truth will never be known if we do not go to Hiroshima in person.
A sense of despair surrounds Hershey. He realized that the new type of weapon, the atomic bomb, did not only harm one person, but threatened all humanity.
The atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima, with a power equal to 15,000 tons of high explosives, can be used only 0.9 kg of fissile uranium 235, which makes genocide so easy and efficient!
As a journalist, Hessy later recalled, “I had no choice but to write down the world that was born (after the first atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima). I’m sorry.
It was late autumn, and at a business lunch, Hershey discussed Hiroshima with William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker.
War changes everything, and the fine New Yorker is no exception.
When Pearl Harbor broke out, New Yorkers began to post journalists on the front lines around the world. They’re getting more serious out of the joke.
They told many stories of human atrocities in wartime, such as the cruel treatment of prisoners by Nazi Germany. They feared that, over time, the pace of oblivion would grow faster, but there were still so many brutal acts of war that had not yet been revealed.
If human beings are good at forgetting, then at least we can write them down in black and white, so that the lessons can be remembered for long.
Thus, on the one hand, they maintain “cooperation” with the United States Government — working in accordance with the Government’s wartime press rules, while at the same time cooperating with the Department of the Army to submit news to censorship; on the other hand, they finance a truth trip to Hersi.
But Hiroshima didn’t say we could go. It is under the authority of General MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Coalition Forces in Japan, and his occupation authorities (hereinafter referred to as SCAP, whose staff includes hundreds of United States civil servants and military personnel).
Anyone who wants to enter Japan must apply to the SCAP for access.
Political censorship is the biggest obstacle to access to Hiroshima. Hershey, is this the person entitled to enter?
II. Ships to China
For Hershey, China has always played his destiny in a strange way. Before being allowed to enter Hiroshima, Hessi returned to China, which by chance led him to find a tone that could be used to speak about Hiroshima.
Hesi was born here. In 1914, Tianjin, China, was born in an American missionary family, but he did not believe in religion. At the age of 10, he was taken to the United States, where he became an adult and was assigned to Chongqing as a war journalist for the Times.
In 1945, he didn’t stay in America for Christmas, but crossed the Pacific to Shanghai. Since the summer, he has begun to study his lingua franca and is now getting better and better.
He can communicate directly with our local farmers. On one occasion, a well-known northern farmer spoke to him about Hiroshima.
Although the villagers were not aware of Truman, Churchill or Stalin, they were able to give an accurate picture of the area of Hiroshima that had been bombed by the United States atomic bombs, using our kilometres.
This chat gave Hershey confidence. Because he was always worried that Hiroshima had become history and no one cared.
SCAP review takes time and Hershey can’t wait for nothing.
He was at the base of the above-mentioned sea and travelled through the Yangtze River, building up the material for his long novel, ” A Pebble ” ; he was also recognized by the Chinese forces of the United States Navy and was able to travel to North China on United States tank landings.
As a result, he contracted the flu and had to move to a destroyer and return to Shanghai.
This experience, for Hershey, is a “good thing about the past.”
During his illness, a good crew member, fearing that he would be bored, sent him a novel, St. Louisley Bridge.
This novel, written in 1927, tells the story of five Peruvians who were all killed as a result of the break-up of the suspension bridge in the canyon.
Hessie lies in bed, he’s in the frenzy of reading, and slowly he finally finds the way to tell Hiroshima!
Like this novel, he will not wait for abstract statistics, not for inflammatory rhetoric, but for calm, restraint and focus on a few victims. He decided to use novels to write news.
He thought that he couldn’t keep his readers out of it:
“My hope is that readers can be these people (the victims of the atomic bombs) and suffer some pain, some disasters. I’m sorry.
He’s going to feature a few of them, and he’s going to let his readers follow their respective paths to their lives and walk along to the intersection of fate — the moment of the atomic bomb.
Later, it was called “new journalism” and Hessy was highly admired.
It seems that it was in Shanghai that Hershey got on a straight-up good-luck elevator. Not only did he find style, he passed the review.
On May 13th, 1946, he finally received a telegram from the SCAP News Office, “not against John Hersey entering as a journalist”.
Good luck continues to favor good people. When Hessi entered Hiroshima, he found that, by April, United States military personnel had largely moved out, leaving behind United States military police with less restricted access to journalists.
And official permission to stay in Hiroshima for 14 days instead of just a few hours.
But 14 days isn’t much. 14 days, to find enough people to interview; 14 days, to let wounded civilians open their minds to the bombing of their “enemy journalists”, it’s too hard for Hershey to be able to do so.
When he arrived in Hiroshima, he began to work hard, perhaps because of the time constraints and perhaps because action was the only good cure for the anxiety.
Hessie first found the Church, and the Jesuit ‘ s German Father William Kleinzog, helped him a lot.
The priest not only gave a personal account of his experience, but also gave Hesse other interviews and acted as an interpreter.
For the past two weeks, Hesi has not spoken much, he has listened with all his attention, and he has worked in silence. As a result of nine years ago, Hessie learned the stenography by giving his writer Lewis — the first Nobel Prize laureate in literature in the United States.
Speed, frankness, humility, compassion from within, and perhaps more than a metre of handsome appearances, have earned the trust of the victims.
Their experience is too bloody, too heavy and often beyond the reach of those who listen. Hershey was so immersed in the process that he forgot how many people he interviewed, and he then said, maybe 25, maybe 50.
Hesse has demonstrated, through field interviews, how pale it is when it comes to showing personal fate.
Yes, it is too harsh to ask people to understand that “the atomic bombs have caused more than 78,000 deaths, injured 84,000, disappeared 13983 and killed more than 90 per cent of the population in the city centre”.
These figures are as cold as stones.
However, one would understand the death of a girl who had been abandoned, a doctor who had spent three days and three nights without rest, a priest who had run off with a fellow religious friend, a widow who had dug up three children in the ruins, a private doctor who had been knocked into the river by shock waves, and a pastor who had returned to the scene to say goodbye to his wife.
The six figures became the main protagonist of Hiroshima.
From the left to the right, the young girls Miniko Sasaki, Dr. Sasaki Wen, Father William Kleinzog, the mother of a child, the first generation of Nakamura, the doctor of a private clinic, Fujii, and the pastor.
On the day after his departure from Hiroshima, Hessi stood on a desolate train station filled with interviews.
He didn’t write the article right away while he was upset. He decided to go back to New York and start writing to avoid SCAP reviewing the press release.
The interview was heavy, and his heart was heavy. A victim’s face, like a train, squeezed over his soul.
In the end, Miniko Sasaki’s face is in his mind. At the moment of the explosion, the beam broke down the bookshelve and buried Minko.
She was 19 years old. Hershey thought, how ironic, books, the crystallization of human civilization, with the atomic bomb, to turn us against ourselves.
He’s already figured out, starting with Miniko’s story.
III. The atomic bombings
At 5 hours, 3:00 a.m., Minko struggled to get up from sleep. She was required to prepare meals for five members of the family, including her brother, who was hospitalized at the children ‘ s hospital, and his mother.
The war broke out and the hospital stopped feeding. Minko has to get them three meals a day. Pack the kitchen before 7:00. She went out to work at the East Asian cannery in downtown.
The city centre brings together about three quarters of the city’s population. Minko’s travel time is 45 minutes. In those years, some companies had stipulated that female employees should have gone to the company half an hour earlier than their male counterparts to clean the office.
This day was August 6, 1945, when the weather was so hot, there were no clouds.
All of a sudden, the sound of the air strikes broke through the sky.
People are hiding in the bunkers, but they are not panicking.
There is a build-up point for United States B-29 bombers near Hiroshima, and most of the planes that bomb other Japanese cities will pass over Hiroshima. Everybody’s numb.
But a terrible rumour continues to fuel anxiety: Tokyo has been attacked by incendiary bombs, and Hiroshima has not been bombed.
People say that Americans have prepared something special for Hiroshima.
About half an hour has passed and the bomb has not yet arrived.
A meteorological reconnaissance aircraft gradually moved away and became smaller in the sky.
7:31, alarm’s off. It was thought that it would be safe for the time being to return quickly to the ground and engage in daily work.
However, the reconnaissance aircraft sent a telegram with a code “Proposal to bomb the primary target”.
Explosion countdown 10 minutes after 8:00 in the morning.
A man goes to the bank and sits on the stairs at the door;
A mother wakes the child up and gives them some peanut rice;
A priest lay in bed, watching The Voice of Times…
Civilians are unaware of the impending catastrophe.
Minko is already sitting at the desk, with two high bookshelves behind him, all the books of the factory library.
She was going to work, but before that, she turned to the right and planned to talk to another girl.
At that time, a United States military B-29 bomber had arrived over the centre of Hiroshima. Without an air strike, all the pilots were surprised.
Soon, the hull opened and a new bomb fell from the air. The pilots either look at the watch or count.
On campus, an 8-year-old boy is also counting. He’s playing hide and seek with his friends. “One, two, three…”
“Tick, tick, tick…” The time passed one second and the bomb did not explode. The pilot’s almost sure it’s a dud!
The plan to end World War II early failed? But they’re still counting time.
The atomic bomb dropped 43 seconds, 44 seconds, 45 seconds, finally, boom! It’s a shock.
In the history of human civilization for thousands of years, this moment is constantly being lengthened, as is the slowness of the film, and every detail, every frame, is repeated:
Less than a billion minutes a second after the explosion, the temperature of the explosive heart rises sharply, 10000 times higher than the temperature on the surface of the Sun. Almost at the same time, a sting was flashing, tearing the city apart.
Some say it’s as bright and white as a magnesium light; others say, more than that, it has all the beautiful colors of the world. Red, blue, green, gold… countless colors, piercing eyes.
The flash contains a powerful heat that can embolden the inner parts of the nearby people.
The atomic bomb, the little boy, exploded.
The fire almost immediately engulfed the city.
Within 1 km of a distance from the heart projection point (military term, narrowly referring to the central point of the ground after the nuclear bomb exploded in the air, hereinafter referred to as the heart of the blast), the wood-structured house is burned and the steel melts like candles, and the birds melt into coke.
At the same time, countless neutrons and gamma rays that are invisible to the naked eye can easily penetrate the skin, and from that point on, the living will always suffer from nuclear radiation.
In comparison to the painful deaths of those who are behind us, we have to say in cold blood that those who are close to their heart and die instantly are “lucky”.
Like the man sitting on the bank steps. He’s too close to the explosive heart, just 260 meters. He couldn’t cry, he couldn’t even blink, he disappeared from the face of the earth.
He left only a dark shadow on a rock that had sat.
And the others who did not die immediately will know what the hell is. The flash is after the shock wave. The first shock wave spreads at 9.5 times the sound speed from the heart to the surroundings.
Leaves rolled up along the way can be inserted into the body like darts. Where the shock wave is sweeping, 7 tons of initial pressure per square metre.
It ran over everything, whether physical or architectural, and it was equal, without mercy. After the shock wave passed, it sucked almost all of the air, and the rear formed a negative pressure zone, and the human eye even the internal organs were sucked out directly.
In the suburbs, people who are still alive will see a huge mushroom cloud that rises and swells at 16 km per minute. Like the poison mushrooms of nature, this mushroom cloud also has life and changes in colour.
It’s red at its core, and then blue, red, orange, purple gray… It was supposed to be morning, but it was dark, and the light came from the explosion, the fire building and the burning body.
It all happened within seconds. Nearly 80,000 people lost their lives.
Minko is lucky. She’s about 1463 meters from the heart. The bookshelves, the floors, the beams were dropped, and some radiation was blocked for her.
But her left leg was twisted in an impossible position. She passed out because of pain and fear. About three hours later, she woke up.
I don’t know how long she heard people moving around. She started calling for help. A man found her.
The man couldn’t move the beam. He said he’d find a crowbar. He left and never returned.
Minko waits between a coma and a sober. How long has it been? It’s dark. Is it night? Finally, a few men came over, and they lifted Miniko out and moved to the yard.
The sky is raining. Black rain, like marbles, hurts on people. These rains were caused by explosions, which condensed large quantities of dust and radioactive material. In the fire, people are thirsty, and some open their mouths and drink the rain. In a few days, these people will display the deadly symptoms of the atomic plague. They will have blue spots on their bodies, their hair coming out of one hand and blood coming out of their ears, noses and, finally, they will bleed to death.
Minko can’t move, he can wait in the rain. She doesn’t know what she’s waiting for. After some time, a man had found a blade of bellicose steel slashed against the wall and raised a small space. He took Minko in. Minko is grateful.
Later, however, he brought in two injured persons, two of whom were women whose breasts were burned, and another man whose face was burned as if it were not human. After that, the three half-dead remained under the board, as if the world had forgotten.
The rain stopped, and it was only after noon, and the temperature was rising and Miniko smelled rotting. Horriblely, the smell comes not only from the two people next to her, but also from herself.
No water, no food, no talk. Two days and two nights later, Minko ‘ s friends began looking for her body. She was found under the shed and she was alive.
Minko was saved, just like the other five major interviewers. Hershey chose to write their stories, not only because they were silently suffering, but also because many of them chose to stand up against fate, such as Pastor Goyamoto, Dr. Sasaki, Father William, and so on.
Their lives were struck by the atomic bomb: most of them fled to Asano Park to seek refuge, and most of them were in contact with Father William.
Especially dramatic, between Minko and Father William.
It was the summer of 1946 that Miniko’s body recovered, but her will to survive was not strong. Her parents died and her fiancé withdrew from her marriage because she was “blasted” — the discriminatory name of others for the atomic bomb survivors — afraid of her illness.
One day, Father William dragged again to see Miniko. Minko didn’t want to hear him. She asked the priest if God existed, if he was so kind, why took her parents, and why was this disaster?
The priest answered so well, saying that God was on earth, suffering for people.
If you want to live, people have to believe in something. In the end, Minko chose to believe in Father William and in the existence of a true loving God. She joined the church and became Sister Dominique Zozaki.
And those who disbelieve have faith. They believe in orders. That’s what the widow who dug up the three kids thought, for example, she explained the explosion with “it’s the way it should be.”
However, neither religion nor fate were acceptable to Hersi. He wanted to find out why, but he also wanted the world to see and remember Hiroshima. His Hiroshima is finally finished.
In the last part of the first draft, Hersi was particularly keen to identify the nuclear radiation hazard, while SCAP and officials in Washington, D.C., concealed the truth from the public.
Now, new issues have emerged. Can this article be published?
The glory of the news
Although the war censorship was over, on 1 August 1946, President Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act, which coincided with the first anniversary of the atomic bomb. The bill establishes a “restrictive data” standard for atomic energy.
According to this standard, any person who has access to data considered restricted – Whether or not his access to that information was legal — and there was any reason to believe that the data could be used to harm the United States — could expose him to imprisonment and substantial fines.
More severely, if it can be proved that the person is actively trying or conspiring to harm the United States, or for the benefit of any other country, he may be ” sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty”.
The problem is that the law does not specify which information is restricted. Hershey and the editors of The New Yorker are in a dilemma. On the one hand, they do not want to submit the articles to the Ministry of the Army for review;
On the other hand, their counsel suggested that, although there was no information in the draft that violated the Atomic Energy Act, it would be preferable not to publish it.
Should it be published at the risk of being closed down, fined or even imprisoned, or would there be other circuits?
The New Yorker was supposed to publish the story before the anniversary of the explosion, but it now appears to be too late. After many days of discussion, the editors finally decided to submit their submissions for review.
Perhaps out of a certain determination to succeed, they did not submit the text to the general press examiner, but to General Groves himself, the head of the Manhattan project.
That’s it. They’re waiting for a hammer.
On 7 August 1946, at 3:20 p.m., editor Sean remembers very well that at this very moment he received a call from General Groves.
He can’t hear you. All he heard was General Groves saying that he had put a green light on their manuscripts, but that he had to “make some changes to the article”.
What would be the change? Everyone wait.
The following day, General Groves sent a public relations officer to the editorial office. We don’t know how to react to what he’s done.
The story of the six victims was preserved, as were the horrific effects of nuclear radiation, and what was deleted was the statement that “Americans were deliberately blinded”.
Accept such a change, and in any case, the faces of the victims will be clearly presented to the world.
21 days later, the latest issue of The New Yorker was placed on the newsstand. It has an easy cover in the same style as usual: a green park, people riding horses, walking dogs, singing and dancing, having fun.
But the difference is that it’s got a white piece of paper, turns it over and sees a short editorial statement.
The original cover of the New Yorker magazine Hiroshima.
These are two warnings to readers. After all, what they did was too bold. Prior to that, it was an easy-to-defunct magazine, made up of a lot of interesting little pieces and little articles.
But this time, the editorial department made an unprecedented move: to publish a story in a single magazine. This more than 30000-worded Hiroshima, heavy, painful, editorially and in good faith, reminds readers who want to have breakfast while they are laughing at the New Yorker, a cruel story of “an atomic bomb almost completely destroying a city.”
Since the military is concealing the harm caused by nuclear radiation, and since everyone is in favour of war and more atomic bombs, it is necessary to turn people into “victims”, even in the moment of reading, to face directly the impact of nuclear weapons.
The magazine was on the newsstand, and the editor Sean sent his staff to observe it, and at first there seemed to be no one to buy it. There was some frustration. But it doesn’t matter, the magazine left a hand.
The day before the publication, they gave copies to nine major New York newspapers and three editors of international news agencies and said that Hershey’s articles were very important!
Soon, the situation turned around. The mainstream media, including The New York Times, published serious editorials calling for reading of Hiroshima.
The sensational effect of Hiroshima, like the atomic bomb, has rapidly drawn into different areas of the population. 300,000 copies sold immediately. Even Einstein, the great scientist, wants to buy it, can only ask publishers to reprint it.
The media is outraged to note that the United States Government’s previous concealment has made it look like a “moral idiot”.
Since then, even if President Truman had asked the former Minister of War to publish an investigation to explain “why we used the atomic bomb”, the attitude towards nuclear weapons has changed forever.
As the New York Times editorial says, “The Hiroshima is not just about the death and destruction of individuals and cities, but about the conscience of humanity itself … History is history, and it cannot be revoked. But in the future, we can still help create.”
Ultimately, the impact of Hiroshima breaks across borders. BBC (BBC) purchased the broadcasting rights of Hiroshima; Penguin Press, in the form of books, produced 250,000 copies, which were sold out in weeks.
A year later, according to a summary report published by United States publishers, Hiroshima has been translated into 11 languages, including Norwegian, Hebrew, Bengali and Marathi, as well as a Braille version. The total number of books sold in the United States is approximately 610,000. Later, Hiroshima was selected for teaching at Ivy University.
Even General MacArthur, who was far from Japan, read the article. He also plans to replicate some for military instruction in the Far East. What does he want from the soldiers?
Perhaps his thoughts coincided with the reasons why General Groves had given Hiroshima a green light. General Groves said that “the disaster of the atomic bomb has not yet been fully recognized”, so all United States officers should read Hiroshima in order to understand how to respond when the United States itself is attacked.
For Hershey, this is a great irony.
He had tried to remind the world how horrible nuclear weapons are and should be banned. It was not expected that the military response was that nuclear weapons were truly terrible, so we wanted more, more and more lethal.
The arms race is inexorable. By 1986, at the height of the cold war, the number of nuclear weapons ready for immediate operational use worldwide was about 70300. By 2019, there were still 3750. Human civilization is in a delicate confrontation and balance.
Over the years, Hiroshima has been repeated and never released. And what about Hershey, the one who caused this sensation?
Cover of various publications on Hiroshima in previous years
He’s still quiet. After completing the proofreading, he left New York for a small town in North Carolina. Although his reputation spread to all parts of the world, he insisted that his work speak for himself and not sell. He’s not on TV, he’s not on radio, he’s not talking.
According to Hersi ‘ s son, his father had only been interviewed twice in his life.
He was still humbled and even guilty of making money. He contributed some of his income, including second-time newspaper publication, radio articles and sales income from book clubs. Most of them were donated to the American Red Cross, and some were flexible, such as the $400 to Einstein’s Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists.
He still cares about Hiroshima. In 1985, he returned to visit Minko, Father William, Pastor Goomoto and others. The rest of their lives are spent in great pain and little joy.
As a generation and a generation of people read Hiroshima, we find that sometimes lies have a greater voice than truth.
We are used to taking lies, or the edge of the truth, and we think we have the truth. Fortunately, at this time, there will also be honest and courageous journalists who are relentlessly pursuing and shouting out for us, “Tell the truth, the whole truth.” Don’t lie to us!”
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” No Forward: The Cause of Hiroshima Author John Hessy”, Jeremy Trigron
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John Hessy and the Art of Truth, The New Yorker.
How John Hershey’s Hiroshima revealed the horrors of the atomic bomb, BBC News.
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