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Atomic Reporters 2025 wrap up, and watch ‘Bombshell’—a new documentary about journalism and nuclear weapons

Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (standing in uniform, center right), Chief of Manhattan Engineering District in which first atomic bomb was developed, and Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer (leaning forward with hat), Director of Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Project, and physicist at CA Technological Institute, view the base of the steel tower on which the first atomic bomb hung when tested near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

By Peter Rickwood, Vienna, 2 January 2026 Journalists who broke US rules barring them from Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after their destruction in 1945 brought more than eyewitness accounts of devastation to their readers. Their reporting contested rigorous efforts to suppress knowledge about the effects of radiation from atomic weapons. The contribution of William Burchett,… Read More Atomic Reporters 2025 wrap up, and watch ‘Bombshell’—a new documentary about journalism and nuclear weapons

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