5/23/2023 0 Comments Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume![]() ![]() Little Boy was followed by another bomb, three days later-more appropriately called Fat Man-which decimated Nagasaki. ![]() We’ll never know the full extent of casualties, but probably 100,000 to 250,000 people died after the US detonated the bomb. LB: Yeah, Little Boy was not a little boy, but rather the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare, dropped over Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. What was it, and why is “Little Boy” arguably the worst euphemism ever? Skipped History is a reader-supported publication, so consider signing up today!īen: Lesley, thank you so much for being here.īen: To begin, let’s discuss Little Boy. Lesley and I covered a lot of alarming ground). Paying subscribers to Skipped History can access audio of the full conversation here (~1 hour. Lesley is the author of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World, which documents how American war correspondent John Hersey helped expose the true effects of the nuclear bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ![]() ![]() Blume, an award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author. Ahead of their planned update to the Doomsday Clock, which currently stands at 100 seconds to midnight, I spoke to Lesley M.M. According to the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, a nuclear watchdog group with the gloomiest job on earth, we’re closer to nuclear war than at any point since World War II. ![]()
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