World war ii correspondent george weller was the first man into the bombed out city of nagasaki in september 1945 four weeks after the atomic bomb destroyed the city what he found was a city totally destroyed many thousands of people were killed outright and others soon died in the coming weeks weller wrote of his experiences and sent his writings to general macarthurs censors but most never made it past them weller kept his carbon copies of his transcripts and his son uncovered . World war ii correspondent george weller was the first man into the bombed out city of nagasaki in september 1945 four weeks after the atomic bomb destroyed the city what he found was a city totally destroyed many thousands of people were killed outright and others soon died in the coming weeks weller wrote of his experiences and sent his writings to general macarthurs censors but most never made it past them weller kept his carbon copies of his transcripts and his son uncovered . World war ii correspondent george weller was the first man into the bombed out city of nagasaki in september 1945 four weeks after the atomic bomb destroyed the city what he found was a city totally destroyed many thousands of people were killed outright and others soon died in the coming weeks weller wrote of his experiences and sent his writings to general macarthurs censors but most never made it past them weller kept his carbon copies of his transcripts and his son uncovered . First into nagasaki the censored eyewitness dispatches on post atomic japan george weller anthony weller google books george weller was a pulitzer prize winning reporter who covered. A classic bit of reporting from world war ii the original dispatches of which were destroyed by general macarthurs censors in tokyo george weller snuck into nagasaki in september 1945 to record the bomb damage and aftermath and get eyewitness testimony to the second atomic bomb blast although later casualty reports were exaggerated the real thing was horrible enough the carbon copies of these dispatches were only discovered by wellers son among his personal papers in 2005 and were never