What I hope will be the last Hiroshima thread this year....

I sure as hell don't want to re-start the donneybrook that occurred here in the last few days about the A bomb and Japan...

But...

Interesting story on Huffpost today. I post it without comment. It's just another piece of the puzzle.

"...by some counts, more American POWs died from the A-bomb in Nagasaki than Japanese military personnel..."

"he reporter was George Weller, the distinguished correspondent for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News. His startling dispatches from Nagasaki, which could have affected public opinion on the future of the bomb, never emerged from General Douglas MacArthur's censorship office in Tokyo....these stories.... were killed by MacArthur who, George Weller felt, "wanted all the credit for winning the war, not some scientists back in New Mexico."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/how-press-censorship-hid_b_675106.html

It's been generally known for years that there were American POWs at Nagasaki. That MacArthur was a full blown egomaniac? -- quelle surprise.