Harold Vincent "Hal" Boyle (July 24, 1911 – April 1, 1974) was a prolific, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist for the Associated Press.
After attending the Junior College of Kansas City,[3] he studied journalism at the University of Missouri, graduating with distinction in 1932.
[1] By the time the United States entered World War II, Boyle had become an assistant city editor with the AP.
[2] In 1951, Boyle contributed a section to a Collier's Weekly special publication entitled Preview of the War We Do Not Want.
Consistent with the book's purpose to depict the effects of a hypothetical future war with another nuclear power, Boyle's piece (entitled "Washington Under the Bomb") described, in the form of a news story, the aftermath of dropping one nuclear bomb on Washington D.C.[7] In 1969 the Associated Press published Help, Help!