| The Atomic Bombing
of Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| The
55th Anniversary of the Bombing of Japan |
An AsiaTODAY special report (Aug. 3, 2000):
history; articles & commentary; personal accounts; general
links |
 The
Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary
Sources |
National
Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162, edited by
William Burr, containing 77 declassified U.S. government documents
with introduction |
| A-Bomb
WWW Museum |
Information on the impact of
the 1st A-Bomb on Hiroshima, & a forum for discussion |
| British
Historian Frederick Taylor on Hiroshima: The Countdown to Annihilation
and the Legacy of the A-Bomb |
Reflections
by the author of "Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945" (Spiegel Online, Aug. 3, 2005) |
| Casualty
Projections for the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning & Policy
Implications |
Essay by D. M. Giangreco in the Journal
of Military History, 61 (July 1997) |
| Decision
to Drop the Atomic Bomb |
Study collection & teaching materials
from the Truman Presidential Museum & Library |
| The
Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: H-NET Debate |
Debate over Gar Alperovitz's
book |
 Devotion
of Hiroshima to the Cause of Peace |
(in English & Japanese) Hiroshima's "to
build a 21st century of peace and humanity free from nuclear
weapons": activities, statements & protests; mayor's
peace declarations at annual peace memorial ceremonies; Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Museum Virtual Museum; reality of the A-bomb disasters,
etc. |
| Dropping
the Bomb
on Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
Nuclear Files Project's compilation of
documents & related items |
| Enola
Gay - Former Exhibition Information |
Closed Smithsonian exhibition on the B-29
bomber that destroyed Hiroshima: images & highlights, including
QTVR movies of the nose & cockpit |
| The
Enola Gay Archive |
Chronology of the controversy over the
Smithsonian's Enola Gay exhibition; collection of Air Force Association
reports, analyses, & articles |
| The
Enola Gay Controversy |
References to over 900 documents related
to the controversy over the proposed Smithsonian exhibit, compiled
by a course at Lehigh Univ. by Edward J. Gallagher |
| Eyewitnesses
to Hiroshima |
Time issue
on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Aug. 1, 2005) |
| The
Folks Who Are Sanitizing and Celebrating the History of the
Bomb |
Commentary by Greg Mitchell, author (with
Robert Jay Lifton) of Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of
Denial |
| Hiroshima:
Was It Necessary? |
Doug Long's article with bibliography,
excerpts from diaries & private papers, & links to related
sites |
| Hiroshima:
What People Think Now |
A roundup of essays & commentary on
the A-bomb controversy by History News Network |
| Hiroshima
-- the Top News Story That Wasn't |
Humberto
Márquez on Venezuelan journalist Silvia González's new book charging censorship & manipulation of the news media by the U.S. & Japanese governments after the bombing of Hiroshima (Asia Pacific Media Network,
Aug. 7, 2005) |
| Hiroshima
Archive |
Directory of "Internet resources as
well as a selected bibliography of printed books, articles, and
other research materials regarding the bombing of Hiroshima [& gallery
of] poignant imagery from the postwar work "Hiroshima" by
Hiromi Tsuchida" |
| Hiroshima
Message: Reconciliation Instead of Retaliation |
On the need to abolish nuclear weapons --
By Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima and President of Mayors
for Peace (Japan Focus, 2004) |
| How
Hiroshima Rose From the Ashes |
Bill
Powell on the rebuilding of Hiroshima in the spirit of peace(Time, July 26, 2005) |
| The
Last Act- Smithsonian Controversy on Hiroshima Exhibit |
"side-by-side comparisons of the first
draft & final draft of the exhibit script, & historical
documents relevant to the "Decision to Drop the Bomb." |
| Mainichi
Daily News Special: A Nagasaki Report |
Series of stories by American George Weller,
the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki after the atomic
attack: written in Sept. 1945, denied publication by the Occupation
censors, & rediscovered by his son Anthony in 2004 |
| The
Mongol Devastations |
Jörg Friedrich 's commentary on the
destruction of Dresden & Hiroshima marking the beginning
the Cold War (signandsight.com, Apr. 5, 2005) |
| Nagasaki
1945: While Independents Were Scorned, Embed Won Pulitzer |
Mark
Selden on "Newly unearthed documents show[ing] how the story of the A-bomb was suppressed
and revealed" (YaleGlobal, July 7, 2005) |
| Nuclear
Education Project |
Japan Focus' compilation of "resources
that contribute to the understanding of the atomic bomb, the
nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nuclear issues
generally, both historical and contemporary" |
| Remembering
Nagasaki |
Photographs & public forum |
| Surviving
the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima, 1945 |
From
the diary of survivor Michihiko Hachiya |
| Why
Truman Dropped the Bomb |
Essay
by World War II historian Richard B. Frank (The Weekly Standard, August 8, 2005) |
| Wikipedia:
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Account
of the bombings & the debate over the decision to drop the bombs, with cultural notes, references, & list of further readings |
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