Atomic Explosion in Nagasaki: First Reports

Japan's Mainichi Daily News is carrying the reports from the first foreign journalist to arrive in the city of Nagasaki after the atomic explosion of August 9, 1945, here.

Occupation censors refused to allow the publication of George Weller's stories and photos that told of conditions in the city and the pain suffered by those with radiation sickness.

Weller died aged 95 in 2002. His son, Anthony, a writer from Massachusetts, found the stories and pictures last summer in the Rome apartment where his father had lived during the last few years of his life.