A gold mine of information, this page is a link to multitudes of information. The title of this page is deceiving: although Szilard is featured frequently, other information about every aspect of the atomic bomb is listed. Over 20 documents are listed "Atomic Bomb: Decision" section, the Franck report, numerous petitions, and a telephone transcript between Groves and Oppenheimer. Web links to other Hiroshima and Nagasaki-related sites are also given, including general information about the city itself.
This frequently updated site is a good source of official narrative-challenging sources. Linked up to recent articles, other organizations, and other A-bomb sites, this simple page is a good starting place for controversial research. The bibliography linked to the page is amazingly extensive.
This site, created by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, provides a list of publications containing information about the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC). It includes books and journals that would be useful for seeking specific information about scientific studies done after the bomb.
A list of articles written periodically, this site provides good information about the activities that occurred in Los Alamos and other locations previous to August 6, 1945. Beginning with the pre-war years and ending with Trinity, this site chronologically lays out the steps involved and the decisions made regarding the New Mexican laboratory and its amazing secret. Photographs also included.
A collection of writing by Bill Dietrich of the Seattle Times. There are also pointers to related articles from the newspaper.
The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. vol. 27 no. 2, April-June 1995.
This is a special issue entitled "Remembering the Bomb: The Fiftieth Anniversary in the United States and Japan."
Hein, Laura. "The Bomb as Public History and Transnational Memory."
Linenthal, Edward T. "Between History and Memory: The Enola Gay Controversy at the National Air and Space Museum."
Sherry, Michael S. "Patriotic Orthodoxy and U.S. Decline."
Fenrich, Lane. "The Enola Gay and the Politics of Representation."
Kurihara, Sadako. "America, Land of Mercy."(poem)
Sodei, Rinjiro. "Hiroshima/Nagasaki as History and Politics."
Yui, Daizaburo. "Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki: A Psychological Vicious Circle."
Hammond, Ellen H. "Politics of the War and Public History: Japan's Own Museum Controversy."
Winnacker, Martha. "War Crimes and Heroism in Vietnamese Commemorations of the U.S. War: Observations in 1977 and 1992."
Diplomatic History. vol. 19 no. 2 1995.
A special issue entitled "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium"
Leffler, Melvyn P. "New Approaches, Old Interpretations, and Prospective Reconfigurations."pp. 173-96.
Bix, Herbert P. "Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation."pp. 197-226.
Bernstein, Barton J. "Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little-Known Near Disasters, and Modern Memory."pp. 227-74.
Dower, John W. "The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory."pp. 275-96.
Boyer, Paul. "Exotic Resonances: Hiroshima in American Memory."pp. 297-318.
Walker, J. Samuel. "History, Collective Memory, and the Decision to Use the Bomb."pp. 319-28.
Tachibana, Seiitsu. "The Quest for a Peace Culture: The A-bomb Survivors' Long Struggle and the New Movement for Blueressing Foreign Victims of Japan's War."pp. 329-46.
Minear, Richard H. "Atomic Holocaust, Nazi Holocaust: Some Reflections."pp. 347-66.
McMahon, Robert J. "Making Sense of American Foreign Policy during the Reagan Years."pp. 367-84.
Alperovitz, Gar. "Hiroshima: Historians Reassess."Foreign PolicySummer 1995: pp. 15-34.
The Pacific War Research Society. The Day Man Lost. New York: Kodansha International, 1972.
Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore Failor Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York : New Press, 1992. (ISBN: 1565840143)
Grew, Joseph C. Turbulent Era: A Diplomatic Record of Forty Years 1904-1945.Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1952.
Leahy, William D. I Was There: The Personal Story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Based on His Notes and Diaries Made at the Time. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950.
Lifton & Mitchell. Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial.
Lindee, M. Susan.Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima
Sherwin, Martin. A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race.New York: Knopf, 1975 (ISBN 0394497945). New York: Vintage, 1977 (ISBN 0394721489). New York: Random House, 1987
The appendix of the second (1986) edition (pp. 335-363) includes the complete documents of the Joint War Plans Committee's estimates of June 14, 1945, and the presentation of these estimates to Truman on June 18, 1945.
Stimson, Henry L. and McGeorge Bundy. On Active Service in Peace and War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.
Terkel, Studs. "The Good War" : an oral history of World War Two. New York: Pantheon, 1984. (ISBN: 0394531035)
Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
Yoneyama, Lisa. "Memory Matters: Hiroshima's Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity."Public CultureVol. 7 no. 3, Spring 1995.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings.New York: Basic Books, 1981.
"Memorandum for Chief, Strategic Policy Section, S&P Group, OPD, Subject: Use of the Atomic Bomb on Japan."(April 30, 1946) ABC 471.6 Atom (17 August 1945) Sec 7, Entry 421, Record Group 165, National Archives.
"Notes on talk with President Eisenhower."(April 6, 1960) War Department Notes envelope, Box 66, Herbert Feis Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division; and, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, "Memorandum of Conference with the President"
William D. Leahy's private diary(in particular the June 18, 1945 entry) available at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Letter from Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, to John A. Shane, Dec. 27, 1960 on target selection, in the Groves Papers, Record Group 200, National Archives.
Fenrich, Lane. "The Enola Gay and the Politics of Representation."The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. vol. 27 no. 2, April-June 1995.
Linenthal, Edward T. "Between History and Memory: The Enola Gay Controversy at the National Air and Space Museum."The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. vol. 27 no. 2, April-June 1995.
Nobile, Philip ed. Judgment at the Smithsonian: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Marlowe & Company. (ISBN 1-56924-841-9) Includeds the first script of Enola Gay Exhibit with afterword by Barton Bernstein.
Sayle, Murray. "Did the Bomb End the War?"The New Yorker July 31, 1995,
Interspersed in the Sayle article are paintings by Hiroshima survivors. The issue also contains an excerpt from John Hersey's Hiroshima, which originally appeared in full in the August 31, 1946 issue of the same magazine.
Wallace, Mike. "The Battle of the Enola Gay."Radical Historians Newsletter no. 72 May 1995.
Also, see the entry above of the special issue of Diplomatic Historyvol. 19 no. 2 (Spring, 1995) entitled "Hiroshima in History and Memory: A Symposium."
"Enola Gay Exhibit to 'Report the Facts."Washington Times March 11, 1995.
Broadcasted as Peter Jennings Special Report by ABC News on July 27 (Thursday), 1995 on the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.
ABC News is offering a copy of the video at about $29.95 (800-913-3434) or a transcript for a few dollars (800-All-News).