lesley m.m. blumehe aftermh of nuclear warfare looks like because john hersey showed us. jeffrey:n her new book, "fallout," author sley blume explores how hersey came to write a profoundly influential work. she calls it one of the most important works of journalism ever created that has siaped neratione. lesley m.m. blume: even if people, his eventual readers, could not understand the physi that went into the nuclear bomb, they could certainly relate to the stories of six regular people. jeffrey: the bomb in hiroshima,d follows later by one destroying nagasaki, led to japan's surrender and ecstatic celebrations of a hard-earned american victory. the u.s. government justified use of these experimental weapons as necessary to end the war, but, blume writes, covered up the bombs' horrifying impact on humans, including the after-effects of radiation. lesley m.m. blume: on the one hand, they wand to showcase the might of their weapon, because they now had a weapon that nobody else did but, on the other hand