Books and Articles On the Atomic Bomb and Its Consequences (Updated 6/2006)

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Allen, Thomas B., and Norman Polmar. Code Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

---. "Why the United States Dropped the Bomb." Technology Review 93.6 (1990): 22-34. [FullText]

Amis, Martin. Einstein's Monsters. New York: Harmony, 1987.

Asada, Sadao. "The Shock of the Atom Bomb and Japan's Decision to Surrender -- A Reconsideration." Pacific Historical Review 67 (November 1998): 477-512. [FullText]

Ballard, J. G. "The Terminal Beach." The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.

Behr, Edward. Hirohito: Behind the Myth. New York: Villard Books, 1989.

Bergamini, David. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy. New York: Morrow, 1971.

Bernstein, Barton J. "The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered." Foreign Affairs 74 (1995): 135-52. [FullText]

---. "Seizing the Contested Terrain of Early Nuclear History: Stimson, Conant, and Their Allies Explain the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb." Diplomatic History 17 (1993): 35-72. [FullText]

---. "Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little-Known Near Disasters, and Modern Memory." Hiroshima in History and Memory. Ed. Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 38-79.

Bix, Herbert P. "Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation." Hiroshima in History and Memory. Ed. Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 80-115.

Boyer, Paul S. By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

---. "Exotic Resonances: Hiroshima in American Memory." Hiroshima in History and Memory. Ed. Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 143-67.

Brians, Paul. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984. Kent: Kent State UP, 1986.

Broderick, Mick. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. New York: Columbia UP, 1996.

---. Nuclear Movies. Jefferson: McFarland, 1991.

Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako. New York: Putnam, 1993. (see video version)

Craig, William. The Fall of Japan. New York: Dial, 1967.

Dower, John W. "The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory." America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory. Ed. Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 27-48.

---. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Evans, Joyce A. Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.

Franklin, H. Bruce, ed. Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories about Nuclear War. New York: Daw, 1984.

Hein, Laura, and Mark Selden, eds. Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. 1946. New York: Random, 1985.

Hogan, Michael J., ed. Hiroshima in History and Memory. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Hoyt, Edwin P. Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict, 1853-1952. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Lee, Bruce. Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II. New York: Crown, 1995.

Lifton, Robert Jay, and Greg Mitchell. Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial. New York: Putnam, 1995.

Maddox, Robert James. Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1995.

McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Minear, Richard H., ed. Hiroshima: Three Witnesses. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.

Newman, Robert P. Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1995.

Oe, Kenzaburo. Hiroshima Notes. New York: Grove Press, 1996.

Ogura, Toyofumi. Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima. Kodansha, 1997.

Pacific War Research Society. Japan's Longest Day. Kodanasha International, 1968. (English language translation of Nihon No Ichiban Nagai, Bungei Shunju, 1965.)

Perrine, Toni A. Film and the Nuclear Age. New York: Garland, 1998.

Roleff, Tamara L., ed. The Atom Bomb. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000.

Selden, Kyoko. The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. M. E. Sharpe, 1997.

Shapiro, Jerome F. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Sweeney, Charles W. War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission. New York: Avon Books, 1997.

Tachibana, Seiitsu. "The Quest for a Peace Culture: The A-Bomb Survivors' Long Struggle and the New Movement for Redressing Foreign Victims of Japan's War." Hiroshima in History and Memory. Ed. Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 168-86.

Takaki, Ronald T. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1995.

Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. New York: Random House, 1970.

Treat, John Whittier. Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

Wainstock, Dennis D. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb. New York: Praeger, 1996.

Walker, J. Samuel. "The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Historiographical Update." Hiroshima in History and Memory. Ed. Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 11-37.

---. "History, Collective Memory, and the Decision to Use the Bomb." Hiroshima in History and Memory. Ed. Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge UP, 1996. 187-95.

---. Prompt and Utter Destruction: President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Durham: U of North Carolina P, 1997.

Weintraub, Stanley. The Last Great Victory. New York: Dutton, 1995.