Register now for WACA's Cover to Cover conference call Thurs., Aug. 6, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET, featuring Lesley Blume, award-winning journalist, historian, and NYT bestselling author. Blume will discuss her new book Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World.

Just days after the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the U.S. government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. For nearly a year the cover-up worked - until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop can save the world.

WorldDenver Launches Race & Justice in World Affairs Series on Aug. 5

WorldDenver is launching a new three-part series focusing on the issues of race and justice in world affairs this week. First up on Wednesday, August 5 is Ambassador Charles Ray on "Race, Diplomacy, and National Security."

Amb. Ray served our country for 20 years in the U.S. army and 30 years as a diplomat. He fought in the Vietnam War and returned to serve as the first-ever Consul General to Ho Chi Minh City. Drawing on his five decades of experience, Ambassador Ray will discuss the importance to our foreign policy and national security of combating systemic racism and building a more diverse foreign service.

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WACA and WAC DFW Partner on Amb. Grossman Book Launch - Aug. 7

The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, in partnership with WACA, will host Ambassador (ret.) Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group and former WACA Chairman, and Ambassador (ret.) John Limbert, U.S. Foreign Service diplomat, for the webinar launch event of their new book Believers: Love and Death in Tehran on Friday, August 7 at 7:00 PM ET.

Grossman, formerly the third ranking U.S. State Department official, and Limbert, a career foreign officer who was one of the 52 Americans held for 444 days in Tehran beginning in 1979, have partnered to produce a novel about the tortured history of U.S.-Iran relations told through the experience of a young foreign service officer in the right place at the wrong time during the Iranian revolution.