HBO Airs A-Bomb Footage Kept from Media for Decades [View All]

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On the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima -- widely ignored elsewhere in the media today -- HBO aired tonight a documentary by Steven Okazaki titled "White Light/Black Rain." It mainly focuses on a few survivors of the attack in 1945, which took at least 150,000 lives. Presumably it will receive repeat airings.

The film also features extremely graphic footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the bombings by an American military film crew -- and then kept from the press and public for decades.

In the early 1980s, I helped bring the existence of this long-suppressed footage to light, and later wrote about it at length for the book that I co-authored with Robert Jay Lifton, "Hiroshima in America." The footage was used extensively in the award-winning 2004 film "Original Child Bomb," for which I served as an adviser.

Here is a full report on how the footage came to exist -- and then hidden from all.

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