There's a lot of argument about whether or not the bomb should have been dropped, and that debate will go on forever. And while the following is not as importa

There's a lot of argument about whether or not the bomb should have been dropped, and that debate will go on forever. And while the following is not as important as the decision to drop the bomb, I think the decisions to publish "Hiroshima" and how it was published (especially in 1946) is very much worth understanding. This was not a story the US Government did not want to get out. The US military/government tried to hide many of the facts about what happened at Hiroshima/Nagasaki for various reasons (military secrecy was one, but I think hiding the true impacts of the horrors of the bomb from the American (and world) public was the big one.) You can read about the coverup of the nuclear weapons impact on Hiroshima in the book "Fallout" by Lesley Blune: https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/fallout-9781925713930 https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/fallou... And here's a short article that I quickly googled that discusses the story behind the story using "Fallout" as a reference: https://insidestory.org.au/the-making-of-john-herseys-hiroshima/ https://insidestory.org.au/the-making-of-john-herseys-hirosh...