When First Foreign Reporter Arrived In Hiroshima – and Then Got Kicked Out of Japan

AUGUST 14, 2023 MS. CATLEAVE A COMMENT

Wilfred Burchett: The Atomic Plague

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer still going strong at the box office, returning to the #2 spot, after one week in third place, still behind heavy Mattel Barbie but now up to $264 million gross just in USA.

Press coverage continues constant, including new praise and firm complaints (often in the same article). Here’s one hit, from Stars & Stripes no less, claiming the film really underplays the role of female scientists on bomb project.When First Foreign Reporter Arrived In Hiroshima – and Then Got Kicked Out of Japan

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When First Foreign Reporter Arrived In Hiroshima – and Then Got Kicked Out of Japan

Japan lies tightly under the American boot. Thanks to the United States for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. Samurai are born…