What we don't know might kill us?

As I read more of the book 1984 I seriously start feeling the theme of How much power does the government truly have? This idea of a sick government which consciously and subconsciously controlled the people in the book was just so powerful fear started creeping into my thoughts. I began to wonder is our government controlling us in the same way. Though I didn't believe our government was harsh and brutal like the book was (not in the way the book was though the government can be harsh and brutal) I do believe the government hides things from the public. This is a constant tool the government utilizes to control the American people. Even today the staffs disease strain which seems so scary now was a mere whisper a few years ago even though the knowledge of the disease's deadliness was known for about five years. The corruption in the Japanese internment camps. The known destruction of the A-bomb. These are all things that the government has kept from us for many years. Is this just one of those its better if you don't know instances? Who has judge on what the public should and shouldn't know? These questions will make you wonder who is running the government and what means are they taking to make it successfully? I believe that the government needs to reconsider its policy of holding most of their information a secret before the American people end up paying for the government's mistakes.