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Saturday, 29 March, 2025

Pilger’s Own Words

‘No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin‘ said The New York Times front page on 13 September 1945, a classic of planted disinformation, wrote Pilger. ‘General Farrell,‘ reported William H. Lawrence, ‘denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.‘ Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the ‘press pack‘

Pilger’s Own Words

Wilfred Burchett, an Australian reporter