How the U.S. government and Hollywood colluded to justify use of the atomic bomb
August 6, 2020
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as posted by the channel75 years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, becoming the first and only country to ever use nuclear weapons in warfare. In its aftermath, the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood. Greg Mitchell, author of the new book "The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," explains how the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki triggered a race between Hollywood movie studios to tell a sanitized version of the story in a major motion picture. "From the beginning, it was important to communicate to the American people that this was a decent and necessary act," says Mitchell. "Of course, evidence has emerged over the decades which shows there were alternatives."
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