Articles by Janet Farrell Brodie

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The Little-Known History of U.S. Secrecy and Censorship in Wake of Atomic Bombings
Janet Farrell Brodie – The Conversation, 7 Aug 2017

I recently published a social history of US censorship in the aftermath of the bombings. The material was drawn from a dozen different manuscript collections in archives around the US. I found that military and civilian officials in the US sought to contain information about the effects of radiation from the blasts, which helps explain the persistent gaps in the public’s understanding of radiation from the bombings.

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