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Fallout
- The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Publisher's summary
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
New York Times best-selling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century - the true effects of the atom bomb - potentially saving millions of lives.
Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation that would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked - until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world.
As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret - even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published "Hiroshima" in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II.
Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved - and can still save - the world.
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More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn’t be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The nightly news is being replaced by carefully orchestrated propaganda. Our iPhones are monitored, as are our laptops and our landlines. As for social media, that too is ripe for spying by men in black suits. No wonder, then, that the last few years have seen an incredible rise in conspiracy theories about deceptions and cover-ups.
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An encyclopedia of conspiracies
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The creation of the Pentagon in 17 whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. The Pentagon's post-World War II history is told through its critical moments, including the troubled birth of the Department of Defense during the Cold War, the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tumultuous 1967 protest against the Vietnam War. The pivotal attack on September 11 is related with chilling new detail, as is the race to rebuild....
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Motivational and complete
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After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina. This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice. At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945.
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Grover Gardner rocks
- By IM on 07-10-22
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We live in the age of disinformation - of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm, even before the 2016 election. But this is not new. The story of modern disinformation begins with the clash between communism and capitalism after the Russian Revolution.
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Grounding book for COVID 19 Media
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Flawed Superpatriot
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Riveting !!
- By Cathy E Taub on 12-18-20
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In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz examines the history behind the infamous radio play. Did it really spawn a wave of mass hysteria? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent directly to Orson Welles after the broadcast. He draws upon them, and hundreds more sent to the FCC, to recapture the roiling emotions of a bygone era, and his findings challenge conventional wisdom. Relatively few listeners believed an actual attack was underway.
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Kinda interesting but incredibly repetitive
- By Lizz on 05-14-15
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives. Ham challenges this view, arguing that the bombings, when Japan was on its knees, were the culmination of a strategic Allied air war on enemy civilians that began in Germany.
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While extraordinary, I can only give it 3 stars
- By Gillian on 12-17-14
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Eight Days in May
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On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing not only the final battles of World War II and the collapse of the Wehrmacht, but the near-total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich.
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Interesting history incompetently read
- By Oralabor Bondurant on 01-26-22
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- EDP
- 11-19-21
Captivating story
A well-narrated timeless story which certainly resonates today given the climate of attacks on press freedom, transparency and facts. Powerful epilogue.
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- Matt Gilbert
- 08-30-20
Excellent book, chilling details of Hiroshima
I thought this an excellent recap of the telling of the true affects on the Hiroshima people, the attempted cover ups and how important true journalism is the and most certainly now!
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- Lara J Deshayes
- 12-16-20
The story behind the story
Though I read Hiroshima 50 years -after its writing I certainly will not forget it. Fallout is a wonderful companion to illustrate the extraordinary lengths taken to research write & publish the piece and the impact it made in so many ways.
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- Dyan Machan
- 11-05-21
Riveting read
This gifted reporter does great justice in sharing the story of the landmark story that sent its own shock waves around the world. Blume not only reinvigorates a masterpiece but highlights the government’s shameful coverup by her own investigation. Fallout should be required high school reading for even the small chance that it would inspire future journalists to want to follow in Hersey’s and Blume’s honorable paths.
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- Charles M. Wyzanski
- 09-05-20
First-rate in every respect!
There are books I would suggest that are best, or at least as well, listened to as read. The narration here is superb, the substance readily grasped, and the subject matter both riveting and important. I could not recommend this book more highly.
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- Richelle's Music
- 10-24-20
fallout - great detail and insight
Good information. caused me to research more. especially since I live near to Los Alamos and Trinity. also caused me to research atrocities on both sides of the war.
Although saddened by the horrorible suffering that followed Hiroshima, I have no doubt that had our enemies achieved the A-bomb first, it would have been used on us.
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- Michael Griffin
- 08-13-20
Required reading (listening, too)!
This true-to-life story is a required lesson in humanity and democracy. The impact of John Hersey’s Hiroshima is renewed with contextual relevance to not only 1946, but also compellingly more than ever to today’s hair-trigger world. It is a civics lesson for young persons and old alike. It is a pointer to how powerful people write events and create histories colored by their own precepts, desires, and greed, and renews Americans’ obligation to question and assert.
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- Buretto
- 02-09-22
Powerful, but doesn't go nearly far enough
John Hersey should be considered a hero for his exposing this war crime, the coverup and spurring on the subsequent American government in a cynical and racist rebuttal, forever damaging the pretense of its moral superiority. We very probably would have learned of the aftermath of the bombings, the radiation and cancers, but his was a powerful and nearly immediate indictment of the indiscriminate use of atomic weapons. How much would we know about Dresden if Kurt Vonnegut hadn't written Slaughterhouse-5? Or about My Lai if Seymour Hersh hadn't reported about it? My beloved late grandmother would say that the difference with America is that we admit our mistakes. I loved her dearly, but I could never respect that kind of willful blindness.
At this point, nobody should be surprised that the American military has been guilty of war crimes as numerous and devastating, if not more so, than any of the most heinous regimes in history. Nor should it be a surprise that the American government has always only ever been interested in its own self-righteous, imperialist and expansionist plans, and would lie, steal and cheat to do anything to achieve those ends. Or that a significant part of the media would willing go along with a jingoistic loyalty. But where this book falls a bit short is the naive idea that the American people were merely deceived, or as ludicrously stated, fatigued of war. A nation on which no major battle was waged. The truth is that the public was nearly as complicit, and did not care. Full stop. It's high time we dispense with the farcical moniker of "the greatest generation" while engaging in the moral relativism that would accommodate Jim Crow, and military atrocities in Europe and Japan. The author unfortunately leaves the public relatively unscathed, no critical mirror left for us to view ourselves. The effects of the original Hiroshima story did not engender empathy, as the author claims. Imagining children incinerated in Cleveland or New York under an atomic bombing is not empathy. It's guilt, or fear of unleashing a force you have no control over, but above all selfishly motivated. Empathy is mourning and decrying the extermination of 100,000 people in a land thousand of miles away, with whom you have no familial or social connection. That is empathy.
The main element supporting the primacy of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings as war crimes is their sheer power. The power of a single bomb wreaking unimaginable havoc on human populations. However, it may just as easily be said that the firebombing of Tokyo, as well as dozens of other cities, is at least as terrible an atrocity. Since that involved incendiary bombs, and required multiple decisions to drop thousands of the bombs on a civilian population, destroying half the city, killing over 100,000 people and leaving over a million homeless. They are all war crimes, plain and simple. Groves, LeMay, et al. are war criminals, and they all tried to cover it up. There's not justification. No false equivalency to Pearl Harbor, a military outpost 2,500 miles from America, only under US control because the government assisted in overthrowing the legitimate Hawai'ian government of Queen Liliʻuokalani a half decade earlier. Nor is legitimate the whataboutism of Nanking or Bataan. The former being hypocritical as most don't know any details but the name (though not about the shift in modern pronunciation), and don't really care about Chinese, anyway. And the latter, as it really is just evidence of valuing caucasian lives over all other (notice there's always reference to Americans in the death march, rarely Filipino). In any case, it's a death blow to "American exceptionalism", as war crimes are clearly committed by all combatants.
I recommend everyone who has the opportunity, to visit Hiroshima, the Atomic Dome, and the Peace Memorial Museum. It is a powerful and emotional experience. And for nothing so cynical as guilt or shame, but as a recognition of a shared humanity. If anyone can come out without tears, seeing and reading about the innocent victims, Sadako and others, I don't know what can save them. And for god sake, don't take selfies.
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- Jen S
- 03-20-24
Dark but important
I watched “The bomb and the Cold War” on Netflix. It features this author, so I looked up this book. It’s a dark honestly story about the US’s use of the bomb and how a journalist really opened the conversation to what really happened. We need to remember this as this threat is still with us.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-09-21
great book
This is a wonderful story. it is well-written and the author uncovered a lot of interesting information about Mr. Hersey and the cover up by the US military.
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