The Hiroshima pictures the US (and Japanese) mainstream media do'nt want to show
Those are 10 terrible pictures taken by an unknown Japanese photographer in Hiroshima after the bomb.
They were found undeveloped by Robert Capp, a US serviceman who later gave them to the Hoover Archives at Stanford University but asked for them not to be made public until 2008. While googling this morning I could not find any mainstream US newspaper mentioning them, only a few blogs including this one from Rolling Stone magazine journalists that includes a few virulent (and historically mistaken arguments).
I found about the pictures because of articles in the French newspaper Le Monde.
Interestingly the Hoover's Archives also have a oral history recording by Robert Capp (who found the pictures and kept them secret) but when I asked them if it was possible to listen to this recording on line they told me you had to visit their reading room or buy a copy.
The pictures were found by Sean Malloy a young history professor of UC Merced while he was researching about about Hiroshima: Atomic Tragedy (Cornell University Press, 2008).

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