Censored Reports on Nagasaki's A-Bombing Come to Light [video 53min]

George Weller was a novelist who became a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. He won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize for his story of an emergency appendectomy aboard a US submarine in enemy waters. He was the first American reporter to enter Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb, but his reports from Japan were censored and never published. His books include Singapore Is Silent and Bases Overseas. He died in 2002 at the age of 95. In 2003, Weller's son Anthony found the missing manuscripts and has assembled them into the book First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. Anthony discusses the book with World War II marine photographic officer Norman Hatch, who arrived in Nagasaki at the time George Weller was leaving. Anthony Weller is a jazz and classical guitarist and the author of several novels, including The Garden of the Peacocks.