Reply #64: one month after Hiroshima [View All]

[RainDog]

if you want to know what one of the first U.S. war correspondents had to say, I transcribed part of an article at the link below.

I've luckily become the proud owner of several ex-library bound copies of the NYTimes from 1943, 44, and 45. It's really incredible to sort of step back into that time and see what was reported, advertised, what books were promoted...

anyway, this is also interesting because of the seeming lack of knowledge, or cover up of the same, of the effects of dropping the bomb over the long term.

Reading these papers also helps me to get a better perspective on the present...many things seem so obvious when we view them in hindsight, while at the time, with the uncertainty of unproved choices and unknown consequences, things were not so simply chosen or understood.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=111&topic_id=6402