New Book Reveals Long-Suppressed First Dispatches from A-bombed Nagasaki

By Greg Mitchell
Published: December 29, 2006 11:00 AM ET

NEW YORK Last year, just before the 60th anniversary of the atomic attacks on Japan, E&P broke the story in the U.S. that the dispatches filed by a famed American reporter from Nagasaki -- but suppressed in 1945 -- were about to be published abroad. Now a book that contains all of the dispatches, and a lot more, has been published here this week.

The book is "First Into Nagasaki," published by Crown, edited by the man who found the original suppressed stories, Anthony Weller. It was his late father, George Weller, who had written the historic dispatches for the Chicago Daily News -- where they never appeared, thanks to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's censorship office.