Hiroshima

Hiroshima by John Hersey - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

Short Fiction

• "The Bet" by Anton Chekov

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

• "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell
• "The Dark Hills" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• "Your Attention Please" by Peter Porter
• "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel Video
• "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" by Frank Loesser Video (audio from 1943)
• "August 6" by Janice Mirikitani (published in the collection "Out of the Dust", p.154-155)

Multimedia

• "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
• "Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped" (ABC News with Peter Jennings) - Available in the CHS library
• "Hiroshima" ELA Dept Library
• "Hiroshima War Art Project 2001-2003: Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb" by Mauro Bordin
• "A Combat Veteran's Story of PTSD" Parts 1,2, and 3 (YouTube)

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1)

• "Why Did We Drop the Bomb?" by Walter Isaacson
• "The Role of Bombing in WWII" by Pamela Feltus
• "History of the Atomic Bomb and the Manhatten Project" by Mary Bellis

Historical Nonfiction (choose 1)

• "The Baruch Plan or Control of Atomic Energy"(primary source) by Bernard Baruch Secondary source,by the United States State Department. Secondary source, by History Channel
• "White House Press Release, August 8, 1945" (primary source, 3 pages) by Harry S. Truman Text version
• Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner, 1950

The library also recommends:

Documentaries

• White Light, Black Rain from HBO
• Hiroshima from BBC
• "Japan" and "The Bomb" episodes from World at War series
• "24 Hours After Hiroshima" from National Geographic
• "The Manhattan Project" from Modern Marvels: Science (Physics)
• "The Bomb" from PBS
• "The Secret History of the Atom Bomb" from National Geographic

Short Videos

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos from the Ruins TIME-LIFE Photographic slideshow on the aftermath
• A Tale of Two Citie US War Department film (12 minutes) from 1946
• A Day that Shook the World (2 minutes) British Newsreel
• "Manhattan's Secret WWII Effort" by The New York Times (5 minutes)
• "Atomic Vets" from the New York Times Retro report

Websites

• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Articles

• How John Hersey's Hiroshima Revealed the Horrors of the Bomb from BBC [article written for 70th anniversary]
• "First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan" from The New York Times
• "Atom Bomb Loosed on Nagasaki" from The New York Times
• "Hiroshima" from the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• "The Manhattan Project and the Decision to Drop the Bomb" from Science and its Times
• "Hiroshima and Nagasaki" from the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics
• "Was it necessary to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?" from the New York Times Magazine Citation (1 page article)
• "Atomic Bomb: Was the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justifiable?"from History in Dispute (longer viewpoint article)
• "Japanese Restraint is Steeped in a Culture of Resilience" from L.A. Times (focused on more recent disasters; cultural response similar to Hiroshima)
• "Crushed, but True to Laws of 'Gaman'" from The Australian (focused on more recent disasters; cultural response similar to Hiroshima)
• "Comfort Food: How Waffle House Became a Disaster Indicator for FEMA" from Popular Science (short but interesting)
• "Destroyer of Worlds" by Scholastic Update (development, use and decisions about the atomic bomb)
• "From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland" from Twentieth Century Literature (long, but interesting - includes racial biases in comics, etc. could be edited or excerpted to a manageable length)
• "Einstein and the Bomb" from World War II by Walter Isaacson
• "Life After the Bomb" from USA Today (survivor interviews)
• "What Scientists Knew and When They Knew It" from Technology Review
• "The Cloud Over Culture: How Americans Envisioned the Bomb They Dropped" from The New Republic (long- could do only first 2 1/2 pages)
• "Japanese-American Incarceration" from International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
• "Japanese-American Internment Camps" from St. James Pop Culture Encyclopedia
• "Japanese-American Incarceration" from Dictionary of American History

• "Fatman and Little Boy" (film) - Available in the CHS library