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May 26, 2016

Hiroshima: What People Think Now



Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also known as the A-Bomb Dome. The atomic bomb which destroyed Hiroshima detonated almost precisely above the building. Credit: Wikipedia

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    • News

  • The health effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, 70 years later (8-10-15)
  • How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world (8-7-15)
  • On 70th Anniversary of Nagasaki Bombing, Atomic Debate Yields Little Consensus (8-9-15)
  • The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction (8-6-15)
  • The Radio Broadcast That Ended World War II (8-7-15)
  • The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs (8-7-15)
  • As Hiroshima’s legacy fades, Japan’s postwar pacifism is fraying (8-6-15)
  • What it would look like if the Hiroshima bomb hit your city (8-5-15)
  • The average age of survivors is now 80. In five years, very few of these first-hand witnesses will be around to remember the event. Many of their stories are in danger of being lost forever. (8-6-15)
  • At Hiroshima’s 70th Anniversary, Japan Again Mourns Dawn of Atomic Age (8-6-15)
  • Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Pass Their Stories to a New Generation (8-6-15)
  • Hiroshima marks 67th anniversary of A-bomb attack (8-5-12)
  • Was the use of nuclear weapons against Japan justified? D.M. Giangreco says yes (8-3-12)
  • Japan marks Nagasaki atomic bomb attack of 1945 (8-9-10)
  • Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Attacks Call for Nuclear-Free World (8-6-10)
  • Memorial service at Tinian's A-bomb assembly pit (8-6-10)
  • U.S. attends first Hiroshima atomic bomb anniversary (8-6-10)
  • Son of Pilot Who Dropped A-Bomb Opposes Plan to Send U.S. Delegation to Hiroshima Ceremony (8-4-10)
  • U.S. to attend Hiroshima anniversary for first time (7-29-10)
  • Morris 'Dick' Jeppson dies at 87; weapons specialist armed the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (4-7-10)
  • Jon Stewart Apologizes For Calling Truman a War Criminal (5-1-09)
  • Catholic Website Calls Hiroshima a Sin and the Complaints Fly (8-24-05)
  • Hiroshima bomb didn't win war, according to Soviet archives (8-12-05)
  • Koreans Also Died from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings (8-12-05)
  • Japan's Atomic Bomb Victims Complain that Their Government Still Neglects Them & Refuses to Take Responsibility (8-12-05)
  • Why the Atomic Bombing of Japan Is Missing from Our WW II Cultural Memory (8-1-05)


    • Commentary: Historians

  • Long Ago: A Total War in the Pacific Came to an Unimaginable End By Vaughn Davis Bornet
  • Marshall's effort to alter course of A-bomb history By Barton Bernstein
  • Why do we pay so much attention to Hiroshima and Nagasaki? By Matthew Seligmann
  • Setting record straight on atomic bomb By Robert James Maddox
  • When America’s Scientists Knew Sin By James Kunetka
  • How a Secretive U.S. Agency Discovered the A-Bomb’s Effect on People By Susan Southard
  • Nagasaki, the Forgotten City By Susan Southard
  • The Invisible Man at the Center of the Atomic Bomb Debate By Thomas Fleming
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history? By Akil N. Awan
  • The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It By Gar Alperovitz
  • Harry Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: After 70 Years We Need to Get Beyond the Myths By J. Samuel Walker
  • President Truman and the Atom Bomb Decision: “Preventing an Okinawa from One End of Japan to Another” By D.M. Giangreco
  • Why Americans Have Been Duped over the Use of the Atomic Bomb By Paul Ham 
  • How "Five Old Men" Started the Roll-Back of Hiroshima Revisionism By D. M. Giangreco
  • Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica: Myth Versus Myth: Remembering Nagasaki (8-8-12)
  • Stanley Kutler: Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices Revisited (8-8-12)
  • Cynthia C. Kelly: Leslie R. Groves and the Unchecked Forces of Nature (8-6-12)
  • Murray Polner: Hiroshima & Nagasaki: 66 Years Later (8-15-11)
  • Jeff Tenuth: Hiroshima and Nagaski: Two Opinions (8-22-10)
  • John J. McLaughlin: The Bomb Was Not Necessary (8-10-10)
  • Jane Braxton: Coming of Age with Hiroshima's Mourning (8-6-10)
  • Stanley Kutler: 65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices (8-6-10)
  • Greg Mitchell: Andrew Bacevich, His Lost Son, and Obama's War in Afghanistan (7-9-10)
  • Vaughn Davis Bornet: A Total War in the Pacific Came to an Unimaginable End (9-2-09)
  • Tom Engelhardt: As Another August 6th Approaches (8-3-09)
  • D.M. Giangreco: Did Truman Really Oppose the Soviet Union's Decision to Enter the War Against Japan? (11-20-06)
  • Robert P. Newman: Has the History Profession Awarded a Prize to Another Flawed Book? (4-30-06)
  • Sean L. Malloy: Four Days in May ... Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (4-4-09)
  • Robert James Maddox: The Greatest Hoax In American History: Japan’s Alleged Willingness to Surrender During the Final Months of World War II (7-28-08)
  • D. M. Giangreco: Was Dwindling US Army Manpower a Factor in the Atom Bombing of Hiroshima? (7-20-08)
  • Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: Conservative Revisionists and Hiroshima (12-2-07)
  • Werner Gruhl: It's Time to Acknowledge that Hiroshima Followed Imperial Japan’s Decision to Launch a Terrible War on Its Neighbors (12-2-07)
  • Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima (11-5-07)
  • Richard Rhodes: The Manhattan Project: A Great Work of Human Collaboration (9-10-07)
  • Richard B. Frank: Review of Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, ed. Robert James Maddox (8-22-07)
  • William D. Hartung: Did We Miss the Lesson of Nagasaki? (8-12-07)
  • Lawrence S. Wittner: Why Hiroshima Day Events Matter (8-6-07)
  • Ronald Takaki: The Lessons of Hiroshima (8-6-07)
  • Peter J. Kuznick: The Decision to Risk the Future ... Harry Truman, the Atomic Bomb and the Apocalyptic Narrative (7-23-07)
  • Robert James Maddox: Why Another Book on Hiroshima? (5-16-07)
  • Tom Engelhardt: George Weller’s Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on the atomic bombing and Japan’s POWs (1-21-07)
  • Tom Engelhardt: Hiroshima Story (8-6-06)
  • Robert Newman: What Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin Got Wrong About Hiroshima (8-12-05)
  • Harvey Wasserman: Nagasaki, the Forgotten Atomic Target (8-9-05)
  • Thomas C. Reeves: The Bombing of Dresden (8-20-05)
  • Lawrence S. Wittner: 60 Years After Hiroshima: What We Need to Do to Make Progress Controlling Nukes (8-5-05)
  • Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin: The Myth of Hiroshima (8-5-05)
  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Hiroshima Wasn't Uniquely Wicked (8-5-05)
  • Gar Alperovitz: 60 Years Later, Historians Are Still Arguing (8-3-05)
  • Max Boot: Why Feel Guilty About Hiroshima? (8-3-05)
  • Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: Why It's Time for Us to Confront Hiroshima (7-31-05)
  • Lawrence S. Wittner: Will We Still Remember Hiroshima After the Last Victims Die? (7-31-05)
  • Herbert P. Bix: Why Did the Japanese Delay Surrendering? (8-1-05)
  • Barton J. Bernstein: Why We Dropped the Bomb (7-31-05)
  • David Kennedy: Why U.S. Leaders Never Questioned the Idea of Dropping the Bomb (7-25-05)
  • Richard Frank: Sixty Years After Hiroshima, We Have the Secret Intercepts that Shaped the Decision (8-8-05)
  • Mark Selden: New Documents Show How the Story of the Bomb Was Suppressed (7-17-05)
  • Eric Rauchway: Why Kristof's Wrong About the Hiroshima Bomb (8-6-03)
  • Gar Alperovitz: NYT's Kristof Is Wrong (8-11-03)
  • Bill Witherup: Richland, WA ... Where They Made the Plutonium Used in The Bomb (6-05)
  • Michael Pearlman: Review of Robert P. Newman's Enola Gay and the Court Of History (3-05)
  • Brent Staples: What Godzilla Was Really All About (5-1-05)
  • Yuki Tanaka: Even in Japan People Are Forgetting the Memory of Hiroshima (2-21-05)
  • Mark Selden: Living With the Bomb ... The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Consciousness (1-26-05)
  • Tom Engelhardt: Hiroshima, 59 Years Later ... And Still There Are Silences We Can't Break Yes (8-6-04)
  • William Thompson: A Conversation with a Survivor of Hiroshima (4-19-04)
  • William Thompson: Revisiting Hiroshima (4-7-04)
  • William Thompson: Why Do We Have to Keep Dredging Up Old Stuff About Hiroshima? (4-7-04)
  • Uday Mohan and Leo Maley III: Hiroshima ... The Anniversary We Misremember (7-5-02)


    • Commentary: Media

  • Kazuko Hamada: Lessons Learned from Hiroshima and Fukushima (8-6-12)
  • Francis J. Gavin: Hiroshima -- An Uncertain and Contested Legacy (8-6-12)
  • Phil Strongman: Hiroshima Is A War Crime That Haunts My Family, 67 Years On (8-5-12)
  • Jennifer Lind: Apology Diplomacy at Hiroshima (7-16-10)
  • Mark Tooley: Religiously Remembering Hiroshima (8-13-10)
  • David Pilling: Hiroshima Still Clouds a Postwar Friendship (8-12-10)
  • Greg Mitchell: How Press Censorship Hid the Shocking Truth About Nagasaki A-Bomb 65 Years Ago (8-9-10)
  • Warren Kozak: A Hiroshima Apology? (8-9-10)
  • Daniel Bruno Sanz: Sixty-Five Years After Hiroshima, the Nightmare of Nuclear War Haunts Us Still (8-9-10)
  • Bruce McQuain: I Have Little Sympathy for the Japanese on this Subject (8-6-10)
  • Greg Mitchell: U.S. Sends Envoy to Hiroshima for First Time -- But Use of Bomb, Then and Now, Still Defended (8-6-10)
  • Kenzaburo Oe: Hiroshima and the Art of Outrage (8-6-10)
  • Jonathan Tobin: Hiroshima, Obama, and Truman (8-6-10)
  • Greg Mitchell: How the First Nuclear Blast, 65 Years Ago Today, Set Truman on Path to Hiroshima (8-16-10)
  • Greg Mitchell: Secrecy and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago (7-14-10)
  • Oliver Kamm: Paul Tibbets and Enola Gay ... About those Obits (11-2-07)
  • Oliver Kamm: Hiroshima and Ethics (8-21-07)
  • Mark D. Tooley: The Methodist Church Mythologizes Nagasaki and Hiroshima (8-9-07)
  • Oliver Kamm: Hiroshima ... Terrible, but Not a Crime (8-6-07)
  • Fred Ikle: We Were Lucky After Hiroshima (8-5-05)
  • Greg Mitchell: Hiroshima Film Cover-up Exposed (8-12-05)
  • Nicholas Kristof: Hiroshima: Blood on Our Hands? (8-5-03)
  • Tadatoshi Akiba: Hiroshima (8-12-03)
  • Paul Olum: Memoir of a Bomb Maker ..."The Gadget" (7-5-02)