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Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History (1983).

A revised edition, To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima was released in August 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield. In early March 2010, the publisher announced that it would no longer print or ship the book. Pellegrino conceded that he was misled and said that other editions of the book would be rewritten. Nevertheless, a month later the New York Times disputed claims made in Pellegrino's book regarding an accident with the atom bomb that resulted in the death of an American and the weakening of the weapon. The New York Times initially praised the book as 'sober and authoritative' and as a 'firm and compelling synthesis of earlier memoirs and archival material'. In January 2010, Henry Holt published Pellegrino's Last Train from Hiroshima, a look at the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima from the vantage of survivors. Main article: The Last Train From Hiroshima The university investigated the matter, and in 2010, The New York Times reported that the university had never awarded him a PhD. The New Zealand Herald reported that Pellegrino claimed his credentials had been restored by 1997. because of a disagreement over evolutionary theory'. Pellegrino responded that the university had 'stripped him of his Ph.D. Pellegrino claimed to have received a PhD in 1982 from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Pellegrino falsely claimed to have earned a PhD, and errors in his book The Last Train from Hiroshima (2010) prompted its publisher to withdraw it within a few months of publication.ĭuring the mid-1970s, Pellegrino earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Long Island University. Pellegrino (born 1953) is an American writer, the author of several books related to science and archaeology, including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Ghosts of the Titanic, Unearthing Atlantis, and Ghosts of Vesuvius.

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