The Consecrated Eminence: 80 Years Later: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6 & 9, 1945

The Consecrated Eminence

80 Years Later: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6 & 9, 1945 In our era of instantaneous world-wide news coverage, it is difficult to comprehend that it took many years for detailed accounts and images of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to reach a global audience. During the Allied occupation of Japan from the end of the war until 1952, reporting on the effects of the atomic bomb was strictly prohibited. A groundbreaking piece in The New Yorker in 1946 provided the first detailed coverage in the American press. "The Hiroshima Panels" -- a series of paintings begun by Japanese artists Iri and Toshi Maruki in 1950 -- […] by Mike Kelly on August 6, 2025

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