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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the award-winning The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The New Press). His most recent book is Memorial Day Massacre, based on his 2023 film of the same title for PBS.


The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

Before Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the World Nearly Got Ayn Rand’s ”Tribute to Free Enterprise”
July 17, 2023  By Greg Mitchell
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The New Yorker Article Heard Round the World

Revisiting John Hersey's Groundbreaking "Hiroshima"
July 2, 2020  By Greg Mitchell
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