Week of August 11, 2008

News Item: Last week marked the 63rd anniversaries of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to Democracy Now!, approximately 14,000 people were instantly killed or died within a few months of the bombings after the Hiroshima attack, and about 80,000 were killed after the attack on Nagasaki.

The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden. M.E. Sharpe, 1989
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 A87 1989

Beclouded Visions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness
By Kyo Maclear. SUNY Press, 1999
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary

The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb
By Michael Kort. Columbia University Press, 2007
Call Number: D767.25 .H K68 2007 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL
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