The Atomic Bomb and World War II

Recommended Websites

• Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
• Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan's Decision to Surrender?
• Beware, the Historian! Hiroshima, the Enola Gay, and the Dangers of History in Diplomatic History(Winter 1996), 121-131.
• Causality Issue
• Atomic Bomb Decision
• Making the Decision to Use The Atomic Bomb
• President Truman Did Not Understand
• Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy - Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Books - Reserve books for this course in the library

• Robert Maddox, "The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Bomb,"
• Gar Alperovitz, "Hiroshima, Historians Reassess," in Major Problems in American History, 2nd Ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2002): 50-58.

Subject Headings For GUQ catalogue

• Atomic bomb -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Atomic bomb -- Japan -- History – Sources
• Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- Sources
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
• Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Sources
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Sources

Internet search might include search terms:

• Pros and cons of...
• Debate Japan bomb
• Primary source