George Weller was the first member of the press to enter Nagasaki after the famous American bombing of 1945. Until recently, the US government would not allow his account to be published. Here is Weller’s four-part, often illegible report on the fallout before it entered textbooks and modern lore.
Showing them to you … your propaganda-conscious official guide looks meaningfully in your face and wants to kn[o]w: “What do you think?”
What this question means is: do you intend saying that America did something inhuman in loosing this weapon against Japan? That is what we want you to write.
The doctors here have every modern medicament, but candidly confessed … that the answer to the malady is beyond them. Their patients, though their skin is whole, are all passing away under their eyes.
I wonder what Roentgen would have to say.
