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
Enola Gay and the Court of History
By Robert P. Newman. Lang, 2004
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
By George Weller. Crown Publishers, 2006
Call Number: D767.25 .N3 W45 2006 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL Services)
Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory
By Lisa Yoneyama. University of California Press, 2002
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 Y66 1999 (Also at Jupiter and Treasure Coast)
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped (DVD)
Hosted by Peter Jennings. ABC News/MPI Home Video, 2002
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 H675 2002 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL Services)
History’s Turning Points. The Atomic Bomb (VHS)
Directed by Neil Cameron. Ambrose Video, 1995
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 H685 1995 (In Media Center)
J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life
By Abraham Pais. Oxford University Press, 2006
Call Number: QC16 .O62 P35 2006
Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb
By Albert E. Stone. Twayne Publishers, 1994
Call Number: PS228 .W37 S76 1994
Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
Edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden. M.E. Sharpe, 1997
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age
Edited by Michael B. Stoff et al. McGraw-Hill, 1991
Call Number: QC773.3 .U5 M26 1991
News Zero: The New York Times and the Bomb
By Beverly Deepe Keever. Common Courage Press, 2004
Call Number: QC773.3 .U5 K44 2004