Trailer | Bombshell
Preview: Season 37 Episode 8 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Bombshell explores how the US manipulated the narrative about the toll of the WWII atomic bombings.
Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, Bombshell explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about the human impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, and the efforts of a group of intrepid reporters to let the world know the truth.
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Trailer | Bombshell
Preview: Season 37 Episode 8 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, Bombshell explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about the human impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, and the efforts of a group of intrepid reporters to let the world know the truth.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipOn American Experience The government effort to frame the story of the atomic bomb.
They want people to think that nuclear bombs are okay.
There was very little written about the radiation.
And the journalists who pushed back and raised ethical concerns.
I felt staggered by what I'd seen I write this as a warning to the world.
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