"Fallout" by Lesley M.M. Blume

[AngryOldDem]

Cannot recommend this brief, yet powerful, book enough.

This details John Hersey’s account in The New Yorker of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, told through accounts from survivors, and how this put the lie to the propaganda the U.S. was putting out in terms of the devastation and nuclear war in general (dying from radiation poisoning was “pleasant,” for one example).

It took a great deal of courage for Hersey and The New Yorker to publish this article. Both felt a moral obligation to do so.

A must read.