On September 5, 1945, Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett published an article in London’s Daily Express, “The Atomic Plague,” which helped reveal to the world the horrific effects of the atomic bomb that had been dropped over Hiroshima. Burchett estimated that 53,000 people were directly killed, with 13,000 having been seriously...
In the decades after the U.S. dropping of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only one serviceman who participated in the bombing missions came forward to publicly declare that he felt remorse for what he had done and reached out to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) by making charitable donations...