BOMBSHELL

Eighty years after two devastating strikes usher the world into the nuclear age, BOMBSHELL explores how the U.S. government creates a false narrative about the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Through propaganda, censorship, and by co-opting the press, the government presents a benevolent picture of atomic power, minimizing the horrific human toll of the bombings. 

But not every journalist toes the official line. BOMBSHELL sheds light on the efforts of a handful of intrepid reporters –among them a Black pool reporter, a Japanese American staffer for the United Press, a Japanese photographer and a magazine freelancer – as they attempt to pierce the official narrative and inform the world about the human cost of nuclear weapons. Their long-overlooked perspective underscores the essential role of journalists in crafting the story of the atomic bomb, as well as what is lost when independent reporting is suppressed and “truth” bends to the will of those in power.