Shark & Mike History Project: Sources

The Wikipedia.org pages provided important historical background on the period and the events. The other sources report first person witness accounts of both the attacks and the internment, and the debate before the attacks.

WEB PAGES

Debatepedia. "Argument: Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was cynically about deterring USSR". (Last edited June 10, 2010). Retrieved from http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Argument:_Bombing_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki_was_cynically_about_deterring_USSR

Hiroshima Peace Site. (Last edited January 3, 2011). Retrieved from http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/index_e2.html

Johnson, Eric Michael. The Primate Diaries. "Intimidating the Soviets: A Hiroshima anniversary memorial", August 6, 2009. Retrieved from http://scienceblogs.com/primatediaries/2009/08/intimidating_the_soviets_a_hir.php

Lewis, Chris H. American Studies 2010, "Did the United States need to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in order to end World War II?". (Last edited October 2, 2002). Retrieved from http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/atomic.htm

NuclearFiles.org, "Chronology on decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki". Retrieved from www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/decision-drop-bomb-chronology.htm

PBS.org, "David Holloway on Soviet reactions to Hiroshima". Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/reference/interview/holloway05.html

Wikipedia:

Bombing of Hiroshima. (Last edited March 2, 2011). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hiroshima

Anti-Japanese Sentiment. ((Last edited March 3, 2011). Retrieved from

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese

Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Last edited March 4, 2011). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Nuclear Arms Race. (Last edited March 6, 2011). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race

EBOOKS

National Research Council, Naval Studies Board. 1997. Incentives to join the coalition and support its nuclear deterrence . Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5464&page=83

Tataki, Ronald. 1996. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb. San Francisco: Back Bay Books. www.amazon.com/Hiroshima-America-Dropped-Atomic-Bomb/dp/0316831247#reader_0316831247

BOOKS

Cousins, Norman. 1988. The Pathology of Power. New York: Norton.

Dower, John. 1999. Embracing Defeat Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton.

Hersey, John. 1989. Hiroshima. New York: Vintage Books

Inada, Lawson Fusao (Editor). 2000. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Berkeley: Heyday Books.

IMAGES

Ihara, Sharkey C. Private Collection: Hiroshima, Japan, August 10, 2010.

Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

AUDIO FILES

History Channel:

President Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan