 In 2004, journalists Amy Goodman and David Goodman called for the Pulitzer Board to strip Laurence and his paper, "The New York Times", of his 1946 Pulitzer Prize.The journalists argued that at the time Laurence "was also on the payroll of War Department" and that, after the atomic bombings, he "had a front-page story in the "Times"" disputing the notion that radiation sickness was killing people.