Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett

In September 1945, an Australian journalist named Wilfred Burchett defied US restrictions and snuck into Hiroshima by train. He was the first to tell the world about the effects of radiation on the victims of the bombing, which the US denied both before and after his story was published.

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