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The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb

August 9, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima sickened and killed. In the New York Times today is an account of the work of Charles Loeb, an American war correspondent in the Pacific in World War II.

Posted in: Environment, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: Atom Bomb, atomic age, Black journalist, Charles H. Loeb, Hiroshima, Japan, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, National Negro Publishers Association, Propaganda, radiation, The Atlanta Daily World, U.S. Army, war correspondent, World War II

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