Looking at the atom bomb at ground level
Long before the American crew arrived and took color film of the devastation, courageous Japanese photographers and filmmakers recorded the realities for people “under mushroom clouds.” The U.S. Occupation seized all the images they could obtain and imposed a Press Code to prevent dissemination. … A recent article by Mike Ives in the New York Times presented some of the most compelling of these images. While they are in black-and-white and now 75 years old, their emotional force is undiminished.
