Nagasaki

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  

  Zachary Shore: the Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue in WWII

  Zachary Shore discusses the contrasting decisions to drop atomic bombs on Japan and rebuild Germany. 

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• 5/30/2021
  

  Review: Lesley Blume's “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World”

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Journalist Lesley Blume's book "Fallout" ably tells the story about how John Hersey and the New Yorker navigated government censorship and political opposition to publish Hersey's "Hiroshima," a foundational work in later movements to prevent nuclear war.

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• SOURCE: Greg Mitchell
  3/22/2021
  

  “Atomic Cover-Up” Premieres

  by Greg Mitchell

  Documentarian Greg Mitchell's new movie about the two film crews – one Japanese, one American – who recorded the human toll of the Hiroshima bombing and had their footage suppressed has premiered. Find out how to view it. 

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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: 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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• 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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• SOURCE: The Seattle Times
  8-3-17
  

  Will Nagasaki’s story be told at Hanford’s new national park?

  “From the very beginning, we made a commitment that this would be a complete story, not only of the (bombs’) development but also their deployment.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-24-16
  

  What About Us, Nagasaki Asks, as Obama’s Hiroshima Trip Nears

  While invoking Hiroshima has become a universal shorthand for the horrors of nuclear war, Nagasaki, where about 74,000 people were killed, has mostly lived in the other city’s shadow.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  8-6-15
  

  The Nagasaki Experience

  by Susan Southard

  Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body