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A 10 page paper that examines the moral, social and political views that the American public held concerning Hiroshima in the twelve months following the end of World War II and how these views were changed by the 1946 publication of John Hersey's "Hiroshima". Discussed are the cover up attempts made by the U.S. government during August of 1945 and August of 1946, the abstract picture of Hiroshima that the American public formed due to this cover up, and how Hersey's article changed this picture by being the first to reveal the truth about the devastation in Japan. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: D0_LCHirosh.doc
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and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of
this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use. The Editors" (PG; Rothman http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6556/ hiro.html). This paragraph, not the familiar column
heading "Talk of the Town" as expected, greeted the readers of The New Yorker as they opened to the front of the magazine on August 31, 1946. The cover
had been deceiving, depicting an artistic rendering of peaceful people partaking of a picnic in the park, a scene that spoke of serenity and security, peace and prosperity (Rothman http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/6556/hiro.
html). A scene that the readers of The New Yorker were soon to discover was a year and a world removed from the drastically different scene they would find
painted in words across the inside pages of the magazine. It was a scene that few readers were ever to forget, and a scene that finally lifted the veil
that had shielded the eyes of the American public throughout the preceding twelve months. With its clouded collective vision finally cleared, the American people experienced their first focused backward
glance into the preceding year, into 1945. It was a glance that peered straight into hell. II. Coming Out From Under the Cloud - Truth & Reality Emerge The
August 31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker was unique due to the fact that for the first time it contained not one cartoon, not one editorial opinion, and not
one word of breaking news. It was unique due to the fact that what it did contain was approximately thirty-one thousand words written by journalist John Hersey. Period.
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