First Into Nagasaki, Last Into Print
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter George Weller was the first foreigner to witness the aftermath of the world’s only nuclear attack—but his searing accounts of victims never saw the light of day. His files were destroyed by General Douglas MacArthur, whose political views and personal ambitions trumped the truth.
Decades later, Gloucester author and jazz guitarist Anthony Weller discovered carbon copies of his late father’s WWII eyewitness accounts of atomic devastation in Japan, and they are collected in his new book "First Into Nagasaki." As the prospect of nuclear proliferation—and use—looms large again, this remarkable window into what a nuclear attack looks and feels like takes on more importance than ever, as does the issue of wartime control of information by politicians.