Found: American Reporter's Censored Stories About WW2 A-Bomb R

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Lost for 60 Years, American Reporter's Censored Stories About WW2 A-Bomb Radiation Discovered

TOKYO (AP) - The censored stories written by an American journalist who sneaked into a southern Japanese city soon after it was leveled by a U.S. atomic bomb have surfaced six decades later.

They offer an unflinching account about the "wasteland of war" and its radiation-sickened inhabitants.

The national Mainichi newspaper this month began serializing George Weller's stories and photographs from Nagasaki, about 614 miles southwest of Tokyo, for the first time since they were rejected by U.S. military censors and lost 60 years ago.

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One woman at a hospital "lies moaning with a blackish mouth stiff as though with lockjaw and unable to utter clear words," her legs and arms covered with red spots. Others suffered from a dangerously high-temperature fever, a drop in white and red blood cells, swelling in the throat, sores, vomiting, diarrhea, internal bleeding or loss of hair.

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[MichiDem]

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1562085&mesg_id=1562085

It's a worthy read.