The first American reporter to reach Nagasaki was George Weller of the Chicago Daily News. His moving September 8 and 9 dispatches on the effects of “Disease X” as a result of the nuclear attack, whereby victims were suffering the same symptoms as those described by Burchett, were buried by American military censors. (Carbon copies of the articles were discovered by Weller’s son in 2003 and were published in Japan two years later.)
