Fallout

When a book brings you to read another book, it's appreciated. Lesley Blume came to interview me about another project she's investigating, and she gave me her book Fallout. I started reading it the next day and after a few chapters, I thought I should stop and read Hiroshima by John Hersey--a book I should have read years ago. Once I finished Hersey's book, I could appreciate Blume's book all the more. She's a wonderful writer, and she has told an important story about one of the most shocking cover-ups of the 20th century.

Since John Hersey’s Hiroshima is my top book pick about the Hiroshima bombing, it makes sense that Fallout is another favorite.

Blume uses her journalistic talents to take the reader on a thrilling journey through the U.S. Government's attempts to cover up the horrific effects of the blast and its aftermath and the efforts to keep secret Hersey’s necessary article about Hiroshima right up to its publication.

Many believe the lessons in Hiroshima served as a deterrent that has kept the atomic warfare genie in its bottle for all these many years. Fallout tells the story of just how difficult… show more.