Oppenheimer and the Legacy of His Bomb

Today: 'Doomsday Clock' Moves Closer to Midnight

My latest film, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today” has aired over hundreds of PBS stations and is now streaming for free…

Jan 27 • Greg Mitchell

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Atomic "Bombshell" on PBS Tonight

Via "American Experience." Let me know what you think.

Jan 6 • Greg Mitchell

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December 2025

80 Years Ago: Bizarre "Atomic Bowl" Football Game Near Ground Zero in Nagasaki

All-star U.S. game on January 1, 1946, in front of a school which lost 162 students to the atomic bomb just months before. From my current PBS film and…

Dec 30, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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"Atomic Bill": When Famed Reporter Turned Pro-Bomb Propagandist

New doc explores how the New York Times science writer helped sell the Bomb.

Dec 21, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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Atomic 'Bombshell' Coming to PBS on January 6

Will debut on "American Experience"

Dec 15, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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A True 'Bombshell' Coming to PBS

New film for 'American Experience' on government and media embrace of the Bomb.in the early days of the nuclear era.

Dec 1, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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October 2025

Will Kathryn Bigelow Movie Influence Our Nuclear Future?

Experts raises issues and lessons but will it have more after-effects than "Oppenheimer"?

Oct 27, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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How 'The Atomic Bowl' in Nagasaki Happened

"One has to wonder, however, why Nagasaki of all cities would be selected as a site, and on a field so close to Ground Zero."

Oct 14, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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Nuclear Thriller 'House of Dynamite' Arrives

New movie from Kathryn Bigelow opens Friday. What is the message for today?

Oct 9, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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September 2025

American Soldiers, and Japanese Survivors, in Nagasaki

"You wondered how we could do something like that...."

Sep 23, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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80 Years Ago This Week: The Marines Land in Nagasaki

Americans respond, in varying ways, to the damage, human and physical, produced by our atomic bomb.

Sep 20, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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My 'Atomic Bowl' in 'The New Yorker' This Week

Especially happy since it's the magazine that brought us John Hersey's 'Hiroshima' almost exactly 79 years ago.

Sep 15, 2025 • Greg Mitchell

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