Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The letter addressed to Mrs. Donna Owen arrived at her oceanfront Santa Monica home on October 28, 1945. The return address on the envelope revealed that it came from...
Missing in Oppenheimer: The Pilots Who Dropped His Bomb
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. In Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, we do not witness the twin, tragic, missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki…the usual images of B-29s in flight, pilots in command and...
Historic Stories From Nagasaki: Suppressed by US, Then Missing for 58 Years
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Yesterday’s post on the first article from Hiroshima here. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free. One of the great mysteries of the Nuclear Age was solved...
When First Foreign Reporter Arrived In Hiroshima – and Then Got Kicked Out of Japan
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is still going strong at the box office, returning to the #2 spot, after one week in third place, still behind heavy Mattel Barbie but...
Did Truman Ever Express Regrets for Atomic Bombings?
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Seventy-eight years ago this week, President Harry S Truman exulted when he heard the first report that the atomic bomb he had ordered dropped over Hiroshima by a B-29...
The Japanese Man Who Was A-Bombed Twice
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. On this date in 1945, the day after the the Nagasaki bomb: MEMORANDUM TO: Chief of Staff. The next bomb of the implosion type had been scheduled to be ready for...
Nagasaki: Forgotten Bomb, Forgotten City
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It’s Nagasaki Day and naturally I’ve written a major piece about this war crime – and Oppenheimer barely mentioning it – just up this morning at Mother Jones, my third...
How the Media Responded to Hiroshima Bomb
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Before “Barbieheimer” there was… “Bartenheimer.” With the need to focus on run-up to August 6 and aftermath of Hiroshima bombing, I’ve had less on the Oppenheimer film...
He Took the Only Photos in Hiroshima on the Day of Bombing (And Then They Were Suppressed)
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in Hiroshima, took the only pictures in that city on August 6, 1945, that have surfaced since, and...
78 Years Ago: Truman’s Announcement Set the ‘Hiroshima Narrative’ That Endures Today
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. My photo, above, on another August 6, out on a branch of the Ota River, where thousands died, seeking relief. In the movie Oppenheimer the scientists at Los Alamos, as...
