Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It was good to see Spike Lee offer this belated criticism/commentary on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer last week, even if cloaked in “massive” respect. Of course it is...
U2 Hails ‘Atomic City’ – Which Escaped Fate of Downwinders After Bomb Tests
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Also posted today at my “other” newsletter. If you’re like me, you may not have been aware that U2 is now playing one of those weeks-long “residencies” in Vegas,...
The Greatest Film Never Made
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Here are some updates and links, and crucial background, related to my recent film Atomic Cover-up and the newly-updated book of the same title – what might be called...
My First August 6th in Hiroshima
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. From a few years back, but little has changed, except nearly all of the bomb survivors, the “hibakusha,” have now passed away (but their children and other descendants...
Dangerous ‘First Strike’ Nuclear Policy Adopted in 1945 Still Exists Today
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Seventy-eight years have now passed since the United States initiated a policy known as "first use" with its atomic attack on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9,...
The Physicist Who Quit Los Alamos, on Principle
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Back in July 1985, when I was editor of the leading antinuclear magazine Nuclear Times, the new issue of the venerable Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists landed on my...
When I First Entered Hiroshima
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. This happened a few decades ago, but needs little updating today. Approaching Hiroshima from the east on the bullet train from Tokyo, one can’t help feeling a certain...
78 Years Ago Today: First Outsider Warns of ‘Atomic Plague’ in Hiroshima
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The Man Who Knew Too Much Three weeks after Japan’s emperor announced a surrender, on September 2, 1945, Australian war reporter Wilfred Burchett left Tokyo by train,...
American Soldiers Faced Radiation Dangers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Seventy-eight years ago this week, the first American troops landed at Yokohama, near Tokyo, with fifteen thousand pouring in within a few days, under the direction of...
General Groves and the Radiation ‘Hoax’
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. As I've noted in previous posts – and in my recent books Atomic Cover-up and The Beginning or the End--the U.S. after dropping the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki was...
