He was duped.

So were you. If you read The Last Train from Hiroshima by James Pellegrino. The book, published in January, is set to be a movie by historical revisionist James Cameron whose life work is to bring class warfare and leftwing utopianism into movie houses. (In Titanic, the third-class passengers were deliberately locked below and allowed to die. In Avatar, the environment was ruined by man.)

Except, there is one little glitch. The technical details of the Hiroshima mission were based on the recollections of a man who was never on the mission. The book was denounced by survivors, historians and scientists. Pellegrino claims he was duped, but the veteran who he now claims lied to him died last year.   Pellegrino says plans to rewrite that section of the book for foreign publication and paperback. The New York Times called the book "sober and authoritative."

The technical details supplied by Fuoco? The book "credits Mr. Fuoco with solving a top-secret puzzle involving what he claimed was an accident with the Hiroshima weapon, known as Little Boy, as it was being readied at an air base on Tinian, an island in the Western Pacific."

A burst of radiation killed a young scientist, the book says, and damage to the nuclear fuel assembly cut the bomb’s destructive power by more than half. The book repeatedly calls the weapon “a dud.”

Sound fantastic? Or authoritative?

What do you expect from an author with these credentials?








Cameron and Pellegrino are liars denounced by several scholars. Simcha Jacobovici, described as "a controversial film director, producer and free-lance journalist and writer" teamed with Cameron on the Lost Tomb of Jesus Christ. That film has been widely criticized and other works of Jacobovici have been dismissed as nonsense by relgious scholars.

UPDATE (March 1) Hentry Holt & Co. told the AP that they "will not print, correct or ship copies of Charles Pellegrino's `The Last Train from Hiroshima," because of his failure to answer questions to their satisfaction. See March post.