‘American Experience’ presents ‘Bombshell’

Tuesday, January 6 at 8 p.m.

Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, “American Experience: Bombshell” explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about the human impact of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II and the efforts of a group of reporters to let the truth free.

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