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

Related Links

• Photos Reveal Horror Of Hiroshima (Huffington Post, 5-3-08)
• Links to Sites on the Internet Concerning Hiroshima (HNN, 1-15-10)
• Truman on Trial (HNN, 8-9-05)
• HNN Hot Topics: Hiroshima at Sixty-Five
• What Recent Scholarship Concludes About Hiroshima (8-12-05)
• Harry S. Truman’s Hiroshima Dilemma Rumbles Down the Decades (8-10-05)

News

• 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

• How «Five Old Men» Started the Roll-Back of Hiroshima Revisionism By Dennis 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)