Now writing full-time, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Town & Country, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review Daily, among other publications.īlume often writes about historical nuclear events, historical war journalism, and the intersection of war and the arts. in history from Williams College and earned her graduate degree in historical studies from Cambridge University, where she was a Herchel Smith scholar.īlume began her career in television news, as a researcher for Cronkite Productions and then a researcher and off-air reporter for ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel. Blume is an award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author.īlume was born in New York City in 1975. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved-and can still save-the world.American writer, journalist, and historian This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II.

Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. For nearly a year the cover-up worked-until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world.Īs Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret-even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally.

Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century-the true effects of the atom bomb-potentially saving millions of lives. New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M.

Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume