Thursday, August 6, 2015

Hiroshima - 6 August 1945




Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum display depicting the fireball over the city center



The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction, How committee meetings, memos, and largely arbitrary decisions ushered in the nuclear age
Paul Ham, The Atlantic, 6 August 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-anniversary/400448/

How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world
By Herman Wong , Washington Post, 6 August 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/06/how-the-hiroshima-bombing-is-taught-around-the-world/

Hiroshima
How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath.
John Hersey, The New Yorker, 31 August 1946
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima


The 'sanitised narrative' of Hiroshima's atomic bombing
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, 4 August 2015
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33754931/

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