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American Experience
Bombshell
Season 37
Episode 8
Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, Bombshell explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about the human impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, and the efforts of a group of intrepid reporters to let the world know the truth.
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They came to hear the concert of their lives, but experienced something far more profound.
