Open AccessPublic Enemy Number One’s global journalism
Author(s) -
David Robie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v15i2.995
Subject(s) - nightmare , adversary , journalism , nuclear weapon , genocide , project commissioning , plague (disease) , publishing , media studies , political science , law , history , sociology , ancient history , computer security , psychology , computer science , psychotherapist
Wilfred Burchett's legendary ‘warning to the world’ eyewitness account in the London Daily Express, exposing the horror of the United States nuclear genocide in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, made global headlines on 5 September 1945. Almost four decades later, in his final book, Shadows of Hiroshima, he returned to this nuclear nightmare and reflected on this racist experiment against an already defeated enemy and a history of cover-ups over the ‘atomic plague’.