Something often omitted from conversations about the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is what average Americans at the time thought about them. That's by design. Enter William Leonard Lawrence, a journalist hired by the US government and tasked to set the national narrative around nuclear bombs (hint: nothing bad to see here) before the general public understood the topic well enough to set its own. #pbs #learnontiktok #hiroshima #worldwar2 #history
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Something often omitted from conversations about the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is what average Americans at the time thought about them. That's by design. Enter William Leonard Lawrence, a journalist hired by the US government and tasked to set the national narrative around nuclear bombs (hint: nothing bad to see here) before the general public understood the topic well enough to set its own. #pbs #learnontiktok #hiroshima #worldwar2 #history
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Japanese-American journalist Leslie Nakashima was one of the first to report on the devastation in Hiroshima—but many papers chose to censor his story. Stream BOMBSHELL on YouTube and the PBS app. #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #WWII #Journalism #History #Documentary #Bombshell | American Experience | PBS
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"In the morning, I say, 'Brother, good morning, take care of me today.'" In a remarkable story, a survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, known as a Hibakusha, survived the blast despite being only 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the bomb’s epicenter. He recalls how his older brother carried him to safety. Watch Atomic People, streaming now on the PBS app. | PBS
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During WWII, the U.S. covertly gambled $2 billion to build an atomic bomb before Germany. Headed by an ambitious Army Corps of Engineers officer named Leslie Groves, the secret science experiment was known by its code name: The Manhattan Project. Stream BOMBSHELL any time on YouTube and the PBS app. #AmericanExperience #Bombshell #Hiroshima #History #Documentary | American Experience | PBS
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