Daniel A McGovern: The Irishman who filmed the aftermath of the Nagasaki atomic bomb

Daniel A McGovern was among the first to enter Hiroshima and Nagasaki after their destruction by a nuclear bomb four weeks earlier

Lt Daniel A McGovern pictured with his camera at Ground Zero amid the devastation of Nagasaki on September 9th , 1945. He was one of the very first Americans into the ruined city. Picture: US National Archives.

As one Irishman, Cillian Murphy, portrays the physicist and so-called father of the atomic bomb in Oppenheimer, released in cinemas today, recall another Irishman who was the first to film the real-life devastation it caused.

Daniel A McGovern, a native of Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, was among the first to enter Japan after its surrender in 1945 where he saw how two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had been annihilated by a nuclear bomb four weeks earlier.