Hiroshima

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Honor a Hiroshima Survivor's Legacy: Ban Nuclear Testing and Move to Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Miyoko Matsubara survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and became an advocate for abolishing nuclear weapons. The United States Senate can honor her and all victims and survivors of nuclear war by ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 

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• 8/7/2020
  

  Hiroshima (1953, Hideo Sekigawa)

  View a segment from, and read about, Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film "Hiroshima."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/2/2020
  

  Sunday Reading: Hiroshima

  Read John Hersey's influential 1946 account of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, along with related articles from The New Yorker. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  Witnessing Nuclear Carnage, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace

  Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima 75 years ago this month, has used the power of her personal story to try to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Worked Under Mushroom Clouds

  Photographs commissioned by Japanese newspapers in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were suppressed by American occupation authorities in both countries. A new book offers Americans a new opportunity to grasp the physical and human toll of nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  8/4/2020
  

  The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

  Extensive Compilation of Primary Source Documents Explores Manhattan Project, Eisenhower’s Early Misgivings about First Nuclear Use, Curtis LeMay and the Firebombing of Tokyo, Debates over Japanese Surrender Terms, Atomic Targeting Decisions, and Lagging Awareness of Radiation Effects

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/4/2020
  

  He Was an American Child in Hiroshima on the Day the Atomic Bomb Dropped

  Unknown numbers of American children of Japanese ancestry were stuck in Japan because of visits to family when war broke out; some were in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  8/2/2020
  

  Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Women Survivors of the Atomic Bombs

  Those who survived the bombings are known as hibakusha. Survivors faced a horrifying aftermath in the cities, including radiation poisoning and psychological trauma.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/24/2020
  

  A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima’s Horror. White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again.

  by Greg Mitchell

  The Hersey article, with its unflinching account of what survivors witnessed in Hiroshima, threatened the official narrative of justification.

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Did the Atomic Bomb End the Pacific War? – Part II

  by Paul Ham

  Japan's surrender was hastened by imminent invasion by the Soviet Red Army, a crippling US naval blockade and conventional bombing, and a diplomatic promise to protect the Japanese Emperor from execution, argues Paul Ham. Granting undue credit to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki excuses atrocity. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Did the Atomic Bomb End the Pacific War? – Part I

  by Paul Ham

  Many people, including historians, believe that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan's unconditional surrender, saved a million American lives, and was the least morally repellent way to end World War II. Paul Ham contends that none of this is true. 

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• SOURCE: Calgary Herald
  5/31/2020
  

  Robert J. Sawyer Tackles the Atomic Bomb with Alternate-History Novel, “The Oppenheimer Alternative”

  Robert J. Sawyer's novel is built around the ethical and moral ramifications of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which the author hopes will receive deep reflection on their 75th anniversaries.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  The Atomic Bomb, War Room Intrigue and Emperor Hirohito's Decision to Surrender

  by David Dean Barrett

  The record of the Imperial Conferences makes clear two salient facts: that Emperor Hirohito ended the war, and he ended it because of the atomic bomb.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Samantha Smith's Dream of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Samantha Smith taught us your voice matters and you can make a difference in ridding the world of nuclear weapons and achieving peace for all. 

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• 8/4/19
  

  “Mr. Straight Arrow,” John Hersey, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb

  by D. M. Giangreco

  What recent histories getsright--and wrong--about Harry S. Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. 

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  8-6-18
  

  Witnessing Devastation in Hiroshima: Survivors Retell Their Stories 73 Years After the Atomic Bomb Dropped

  As of March 2017, more than 160,000 hibakusha, the Japanese name for atomic bomb survivors, were still alive.

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• 8/5/18
  

  This Knocks the Legs Out from Under the Atom Bomb Revisionists Who Criticize Truman for Hiroshima

  by D. M. Giangreco

  It’s the story of America’s hidden role in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

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• 2-21-18
  

  Review of D. M. Giangreco's “Hell to Pay: Revising the Atomic Bomb Revisionists”

  by Robert James Maddox

  A second edition of the book includes blockbuster evidence showing that the Truman administration, contrary to the revisionists, welcomed the intervention of the USSR in the Pacific theater.

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• SOURCE: adamwestbrook.co.uk
  12-4-17 (accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: The Unluckiest Person in History

  by Adam Westbrook

  Is it perhaps the person who was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb dropped and then went to Nagasaki and was there when it, too, was bombed?  

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-9-17
  

  What to Know Before You Compare Truman's Hiroshima Statement to Trump's North Korea Ultimatum

  Despite the rhetorical similarities between the "rain of ruin" and the "fire and fury," presidential historians like Michael Beschloss say Trump's language has been unusually harsh considering the context.