Opinion

The Hiroshima Cover-Up Began in the Nuclear Era’s First Hours

‘A RATHER PLEASANT WAY TO DIE’

After the bomb dropped 75 years ago, U.S. officials took pains to spin and censor the press, and control the atomic narrative, to this day.

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