....NEW YORK In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60
years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight
suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This
included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In
addition, for many years all but a handful of newspaper photographs were seized
or prohibited........
.......When that footage finally emerged, I corresponded and spoke with the
man at the center of this drama: Lt. Col. (Ret.) Daniel A. McGovern, who
directed the U.S. military filmmakers in 1945-1946, managed the Japanese
footage, and then kept watch on all of the top-secret material for decades. "I
always had the sense," McGovern told me, "that people in the Atomic Energy
Commission were sorry we had dropped the bomb. The Air Force -- it was also
sorry. I was told by people in the Pentagon that they didn't want those [film]
images out because they showed effects on man, woman and child. ... They didn't
want the general public to know what their weapons had done -- at a time they
were planning on more bomb tests. We didn't want the material out because ... we
were sorry for our sins."...........
hell 'they' won't even allow photos of our service people who died in the line of duty (in iraq) to be released.
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