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August 6 / 9, 1945

 

Japan

 

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 

warning: graphic violence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors

share their stories

CBS    24 July 2023

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors share their stories

Video    CBS mornings    24 July 2023

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SW47XrWjB8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The HISTORY Channel Canada    6 August 2019

 

 

 

 

HISTORY OF | The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Video    The HISTORY® Channel Canada    6 August 2019

Some content in this video may be graphic to some viewers.

Today marks the 74th anniversary

of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZSENcK-en4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

NYT    7 August 2017

 

 

 

 

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Video    The Daily 360    The New York Times    7 August 2017

Through modeling and mapping technologies,

witness from above what happened in Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945.

By: Kaitlyn Mullin, Veda Shastri, Nicole Fineman, and Samantha Quick

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgp6ZH-by-E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controversy

over the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan

still lingers

WP    7 August 2017

 

 

 

 

Controversy over the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan still lingers

Video    Washington Post    7 August 2017

More than 70 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

the question of whether the decision was the right one is still being asked.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX63b1sJtoc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miyako Jodai, 76,

a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945,

in her home on Monday.

 

“I feel like Nagasaki has been abandoned

and thrown away,” she said.

 

Photograph: Adam Dean

for The New York Times

 

What About Us, Nagasaki Asks, as Obama’s Hiroshima Trip Nears

NYT

May 24, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/world/asia/
what-about-us-nagasaki-asks-as-obamas-hiroshima-trip-nears.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harold Melvin Agnew    USA    1921-2013

 

 

 

Harold M. Agnew, fourth from left,

with other group leaders involved in the atomic bomb project.

 

He later flew on the first atomic strike against Japan

and helped perfect the hydrogen bomb.

 

Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

 

Harold M. Agnew, Physicist Present at Birth of the Nuclear Age, Dies at 92

NYT

October 1, 2013

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
us/harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

last surviving major figure

to have been present

at the birth of the nuclear age

— a physicist who helped build

the world’s

first reactor and atomic bombs,

flew on the first atomic strike

against Japan,

filmed the mushroom cloud,

helped perfect the hydrogen bomb

and led

the Los Alamos National Laboratory

at the height of the cold war

 

(...)

 

Dr. Agnew

was no giant of discovery,

but he was ingenious technically

and wielded

great influence for decades

as a presidential adviser

and a gregarious hawk,

as restless and unpredictable

as the tumultuous age

he helped define.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
us/harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-
dies-at-92.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
us/harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-
dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1945

 

The surrender of the Empire of Japan

(...)

was announced by Emperor Hirohito

on 15 August

and formally signed

on 2 September 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

 

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/
japan-surrenders

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/
books/review/a-continent-erupts-ronald-h-spector.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japan's atomic bomb survivors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/03/
then-the-black-rain-fell-survivors-recollections-of-hiroshima-inspire-new-film

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/
opinion/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-survivor.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/09/
900553387/an-atomic-bomb-survivor-
on-her-journey-from-revenge-to-peace

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/
world/asia/taniguchi-nagasaki-atomic-bomb.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/28/
479747302/after-hiroshima-bombing-survivors-sorted-through-the-horror

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/world/asia/
survivors-recount-horrors-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/27/
479464410/a-survivors-tale-how-hiroshima-shaped-a-japanese-american-family

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/world/asia/korea-hiroshima-nagasaki-
survivors.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/world/asia/
what-about-us-nagasaki-asks-as-obamas-hiroshima-trip-nears.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/world/asia/
witnesses-to-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-pass-their-stories-to-a-new-generation.html

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/
japan-atomic-bomb-survivors-nuclear-weapons-hiroshima-70th-anniversary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bones scattered in September 1945

on a school playground,

less than a mile from ground zero.

 

Photograph: Teiji Nihei

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atomic bombings of Nagasaki    August 9, 1945

 

 

 

 

Second atomic bomb of World War II explodes over Nagasaki (1945)

Atom bomb "Fat Man" destroys Nagasaki

as viewed from a B-29 Superfortress accompanying the Bockscar

flown by Major Charles W.

British Pathé

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-XoaU4ScA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A child received treatment at a temporary hospital

set up at Shin Kozen Elementary School in Nagasaki

after the city’s atomic bombing on Aug. 9, 1945,

three days after the leveling of Hiroshima.

 

Photograph: Yasuo Tomishige

The Asahi Shimbun, via Getty Images

 

The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb

Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda

to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima

sickened and killed.

NYT

Aug. 9, 2021    5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/
science/charles-loeb-atomic-bomb.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the atom bomb: Nagasaki in ruins.

 

Photograph: Rex

 

Remembering Nagasaki: the man who walked through hell

O

Sunday 26 July 2015    08.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/nagasaki-
man-who-walked-through-hell-jan-bras

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the background,

a Roman Catholic cathedral on a hill in Nagasaki.

Ca. 1945.

 

77-AEC-52-4459.

Pictures of World War II > Japan

US National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-165.jpg

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#japan2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A family cremating its dead in Nagasaki in September 1945.

 

Photograph: Eiichi Matsumoto

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A man in Nagasaki searching for a doctor

to treat his wounded baby the day after the bombing.

 

Photograph: Yosuke Yamahata,

courtesy Shogo Yamahata

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Around 2:00 p.m. on Aug. 10.

The atomic bomb had exploded about a third of a mile above this location,

the Matsuyama-machi intersection.

The remains of a private school is in the rear at right.

The chimney, center rear,

was part of the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Steel Works.

 

Photograph: Yosuke Yamahata,

courtesy Shogo Yamahata

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mushroom cloud on Aug. 9,

15 minutes after the explosion.

 

Photograph: Hiromichi Matsuda,

courtesy Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima    August 6, 1945

 

 

 

 

The devastated city of Hiroshima

some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city.

 

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

 

Hiroshima’s fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten

O

Sunday 2 August 2015    08.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/
hiroshima-bombing-70-years-on-eric-schlosser

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima,

showing arm and face covered with keloids

caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

 

Location: Hiroshima, Japan

 

Date taken: August 1947

 

Photograph: Carl Mydans

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/56623cc503563918.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Survivors still hospitalized in Hiroshima,

showing their bodies covered with keloids

caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

 

Location: Hiroshima, Japan

 

Date taken: August 1947

 

Photograph: Carl Mydans

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/43168a6b36007ec3.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima,

showing arms and torso covered with keloids

caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

 

Location: Hiroshima, Japan

 

Date taken: August 1947

 

Photograph: Carl Mydans

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5a266d06f14d105d.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A mother tends her injured child

after the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima.

 

Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

 

Hiroshima’s fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten

The Observer

Sunday 2 August 2015    08.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/
hiroshima-bombing-70-years-on-eric-schlosser

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patients being treated in a medical tent

in Hiroshima on Aug. 9.

 

Photograph: Yotsugi Kawahara,

courtesy Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young woman who survived the explosion at Minami-Ohashi,

a mile south of ground zero, being pulled on Oct. 4

by her aunt on a cart over rubble-covered roads

to Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

 

Photograph: Shunkichi Kikuchi,

courtesy Harumi Tago

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This man, photographed Oct. 2

at a branch of a hospital in Hiroshima,

had been exposed to radiation at Senda-machi.

 

Burned on his right arm,

he received skin transplants from his buttocks.

 

Photograph: Shunkichi Kikuchi,

courtesy Harumi Tago

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view of Hiroshima from Higi-Yama,

a hill that rises in the eastern part of the city,

about one to two months after the bombing.

 

Photograph: Collection Japanese

Magnum Photos

 

World War II After 75 Years: Beyond the War We Know

We set out to explore the end of the conflict and its aftermath,

focusing on lesser-known stories both personal and profound.

NYT

September 2, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
magazine/ww-ii-75th-anniversary.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view of the center of Hiroshima

from a police station in September 1945.

A newspaper building,

a department store and a bank were destroyed.

 

Photograph: Yoshito Matsushige

Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.

 

Photograph:

Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration/

Narratively

 

Daughters of the bomb:

my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later

G

Wed 5 Aug 2020    06.00 BST

Last modified on Wed 5 Aug 2020    18.43 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/
hiroshima-bombing-75th-anniversary-racism-atomic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A journalist stands on the former site of a movie theater

in Hiroshima, Japan, in September 1945,

one month after the United States dropped an atomic bomb

on the city.

 

Photograph: Pool photo by Stanley Troutman

 

The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb

NYT

Aug. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/
books/review/fallout-hiroshima-hersey-lesley-m-m-blume.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The ruins of Hiroshima,

after the atomic bombing in 1945.

 

Photograph: Associated Press

 

Obama’s Visit: Renewing the Debate Over Hiroshima

NYT

MAY 11, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/
opinion/obamas-visit-renewing-the-debate-over-hiroshima.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall,

which stood very close to the bomb’s hypocentre.

 

The skeletal structure of the dome

is now known officially as the A-bomb Dome.

 

Photograph: EPA

 

'Rain of ruin': the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

G

Thursday 6 August 2015    07.30 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2015/aug/06/
hiroshima-atomic-bomb-guardian-1945-archive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima and the nuclear age - a visual guide

G

Wednesday 5 August 2015    20.30 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/aug/05/
hiroshima-nuclear-guide-anniversary-atomic-bomb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima in ruins following the atomic bomb blast.

 

Location: Hiroshima, Japan

 

Date taken: September 1945

 

Photographer: Bernard Hoffman

 

Life Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast.

 

Location: Hiroshima, Japan

 

Date taken: September 1945

 

Photographer: George Silk

 

Life Images
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

An aerial overview of Hiroshima in autumn of 1945.

 

The hypocenter and Atom Bomb Dome are visible at top center.

 

Photograph: U.S. National Archives

 

Boston Globe > Big Picture

Hiroshima, 64 years ago        August 5, 2009

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima        The ground zero they didn't want us to see

The Guardian Weekend        pp. 24-25        16 July 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/
weekend7.weekend2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima        The ground zero they didn't want us to see

The Guardian Weekend        pp. 22-23        16 July 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/
weekend7.weekend2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima        The ground zero they didn't want us to see

The Guardian Weekend        pp. 26-27        16 July 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/
weekend7.weekend2 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 August 1945

 

three strike planes

(...)

 flew over Hiroshima

that day:

 

the Enola Gay,

which carried the bomb,

and two observation planes,

the Great Artiste

and the Necessary Evil.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/
636008863/last-surviving-crew-member-has-no-regrets-about-bombing-hiroshima

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/
636008863/last-surviving-crew-member-
has-no-regrets-about-bombing-hiroshima

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.    1915-2007

 

 

 

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.,

pilot of the ENOLA GAY,

the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,

waves from his cockpit before the takeoff,

6 August 1945.

 

208-LU-13H-5.

Pictures of World War II > Japan

US National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-162.jpg

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#japan2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Tibbets in 2003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Tibbets_2003.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets

 

Primary source

031210-F-3050V-112

Retired US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Paul W. Tibbets

talks about his experience flying the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay,

that delivered the first atomic bomb during World War II.

 

BGEN Tibbets spoke to a gathering

prior to autographing copies of his book "The Return of the Enola Gay,"

at a book-signing event in the Pentagon Concourse.

 

Photographer's Name: MSGT JIM VARHEGYI, USAF

Location: PENTAGON

Date Shot: 12/10/2003

Date Posted: unknown

VIRIN: 031210-F-3050V-112

DefenseLINK

http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#
a=search&s=tibbets&guid=b8c8dff7b0a4a31469521c88b2b53c8d9338fd08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pilot

of the US bomber Enola Gay,

which in 1945 dropped

the first nuclear bomb

to be detonated in wartime

 

(...)

 

Paul Tibbets was in command

of the B-29 aircraft,

which dropped

the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb

over Hiroshima

as the US tried to end

the second world war

without a ground invasion

of Japan

 

Up to 100,000 people

are estimated to have died

in the explosion.

 

(...)

 

He always maintained

that his conscience

was clear over Hiroshima.

 

"I'm not proud

that I killed 80,000 people,

but I'm proud

that I was able

to start with nothing,

plan it and have it work

as perfectly as it did,"

he said

in a 1975 interview.

 

"You've got to take stock

and assess the situation

at that time.

 

We were at war ...

 

you use anything

at your disposal.

 

I sleep clearly every night."

 

Three days after Hiroshima

was obliterated on August 6,

the US dropped

a second bomb on Nagaski,

killing an estimated

40,000 people.
 

 

On August 15,

the Japanese emperor

broadcast his country's surrender,

saying the war situation had

"developed, not necessarily

to Japan's advantage".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/01/japan.usa

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/nov/02/
guardianobituaries.military

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/01/
japan.usa 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/
obituaries/01cnd-tibbets.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theodore Van Kirk    1921-2014

 

navigator

and last surviving

crew member

of the Enola Gay,

the B-29 Superfortress

that dropped

the atomic bomb

on Hiroshima

 

(...)

 

In the predawn hours

of Aug. 6, 1945,

the Enola Gay, piloted by

Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr.

and carrying a crew of 12,

took off from Tinian

in the Mariana Islands

with a uranium bomb built

under extraordinary secrecy

in the vast Manhattan Project.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/
30vankirk.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/world/hiroshima-
enola-gay-s-crew-recalls-the-flight-into-a-new-era.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morris Richard Jeppson    1922-2010

 

Army Air Forces electronics specialist

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/
us/08jeppson.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claude Robert Eatherly    1918-1978

 

 

 

Maj. Claude Eatherly,

the only service member who flew in the atomic bombing missions

and later publicly expressed remorse for what he had done.

 

Photograph: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo

Alamy

 

World War II After 75 Years: Beyond the War We Know

We set out to explore the end of the conflict and its aftermath,

focusing on lesser-known stories both personal and profound.

NYT

September 2, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
magazine/ww-ii-75th-anniversary.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces

during World War II,

and the pilot of a weather reconnaissance

aircraft Straight Flush that supported

the dropping of the atomic bomb

on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Eatherly - September 4, 2020

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Claude_Eatherly

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
magazine/ww-ii-75th-anniversary.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/
magazine/hiroshima-claude-eatherly-antinuclear.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima - By John Hersey

 

The New Yorker > August 31, 1946 Issue

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/
hiroshima

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 6 / 9, 1945

 

Atomic bombings

of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 

 

At 8.15am,

(...)

the US B-29  bomber Enola Gay

dropped Little Boy,

a 16-kiloton atomic bomb,

on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945

(...)

140,000 people (...) died,

more than half of them

in an instant.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/hiroshima-
atomic-bomb-a-simple-toll-of-a-bell-signals-the-moment-80000-died

 

 

 

Of 320,000 people

in Hiroshima that morning,

80,000 died immediately

or were badly wounded

by the A-bomb,

nicknamed "Little Boy".

 

The site

of the explosion

reached a temperature

of 5,400°F.

 

Three days after Hiroshima,

Nagasaki was A-bombed,

with up to 40,000 killed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.military

 

 

 

total death toll

in Hiroshima

(...) 297,684

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/hiroshima-
atomic-bomb-a-simple-toll-of-a-bell-signals-the-moment-80000-died

 

 

 

Estimates of people killed

in the immediate aftermath

of the two bombings

and the months that followed

range as high as 246,000

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/aug/05
/hiroshima-nuclear-guide-anniversary-atomic-bomb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/
science/charles-loeb-atomic-bomb.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/
magazine/ww-ii-75th-anniversary.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/06/
imperial-war-museum-unveils-film-marking-75-years-since-hiroshima-bomb

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/aug/06/
hiroshima-marks-75th-anniversary-of-atomic-bombing-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/06/
es-devlin-and-machiko-weston-i-saw-the-world-end-review

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/
899593615/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-raising-questions-75-years-later

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/
world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/06/
to-my-last-breath-survivors-fight-for-memory-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/
world/asia/hiroshima-japan-75th-anniversary.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/
hiroshima-atomic-bomb-us-japan-history

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/
hiroshima-bombing-75th-anniversary-racism-atomic

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/
harry-truman-grandson-hiroshima-nuclear-atom-bomb

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/
books/review/fallout-hiroshima-hersey-lesley-m-m-blume.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/
books/review/unconditional-marc-gallicchio.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/01/
896627359/opinion-
75-years-on-remember-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-but-remember-toyama-too

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2019/aug/06/
hiroshima-bombing-74th-anniversary-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/world/asia/taniguchi-nagasaki-
atomic-bomb.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/06/
541885092/japan-calls-for-denuclearized-world-on-72nd-anniversary-of-hiroshima

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/
100000005317552/hiroshima-atomic-nuclear-bomb.html - August 2017

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/27/
479691439/president-obama-arrives-in-hiroshima-the-first-sitting-commander-in-chief-to-vis

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/world/asia/hiroshima-
atomic-bomb.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/
opinion/obamas-visit-renewing-the-debate-over-hiroshima.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/world/asia/hiroshima-
atomic-bomb.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/
11/473781156/secretary-of-state-john-kerry-visits-hiroshima-memorial

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/09/
430879790/remembering-the-horror-of-nagasaki-70-years-later

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/
hiroshima-atomic-bomb-a-simple-toll-of-a-bell-signals-the-moment-80000-died

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/06/
after-the-atomic-bomb-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-then-and-now-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/
japan-atomic-bomb-survivors-nuclear-weapons-hiroshima-70th-anniversary

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/
hiroshima-remembers-atomic-bomb-abolish-the-evil-of-nuclear-weapons

 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/jul/23/
70-years-after-hiroshima-nuclear-weapons-threaten-us-all

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2015/aug/06/
hiroshima-atomic-bomb-guardian-1945-archive

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/06/
429989339/70-years-after-atomic-bombs-japan-still-struggles-with-war-past

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/
429433621/why-did-the-u-s-choose-hiroshima

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/world/asia/
did-us-have-to-drop-atomic-bombs-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/
100000003837531/hiroshima-marks-70-years-since-bombing.html

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/hiroshima-
bombing-70-years-on-eric-schlosser

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/nagasaki-
man-who-walked-through-hell-jan-bras

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
science/donald-hornig-a-bomb-scientist-and-brown-president-dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20garner.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07yamaguchi.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/hiroshima-
nuclear-second-world-war

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/
how-i-survived-hiroshima-ndash-and-then-nagasaki-1654294.html

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima
_64_years_ago.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/25/hiroshima-nagasaki-
survivor-japan

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/01/japan.usa 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4748027.stm

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuclear_02.shtml

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm

 

 

 

 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

 

 

 

 

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/08/issue.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/aug/09/
japan.fromthearchive

 

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/07/88273622.html?pageNumber=4

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/aug/07/
secondworldwar.usa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 6 1945

 

Hiroshima

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/hiroshima60yearson

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/aug/06/
hiroshima-marks-75th-anniversary-of-atomic-bombing-in-pictures

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/
books/review/fallout-hiroshima-hersey-lesley-m-m-blume.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/06/japan.secondworldwar1 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/06/nuclear.japan 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/16/weekend7.weekend2 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/02/foreignpolicy.politicalcolumnists 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/02/secondworldwar.guardianletters 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/30/japan.secondworldwar   

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/24/secondworldwar.japan2 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/24/secondworldwar.japan1

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/24/secondworldwar.japan 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/23/guardianletters4 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/1963/aug/01/mainsection.fromthearchive 

 

 

 

 

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/08/issue.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/Story/0,,127716,00.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima and the nuclear age - a visual guide

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/aug/05/
hiroshima-nuclear-guide-anniversary-atomic-bomb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enola Gay

 

B-29 Superfortress

that dropped the atomic bomb

on Hiroshima

in the last days of World War II

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/20/
hiroshima-enola-gay-last-crew-member 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/us/08jeppson.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/01/
japan.usa

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4718579.stm - 4 August 2006

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3315729.stm - 16 December 2003

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/06/
nuclear.japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima > Little Boy

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/
uss-indianapolis-paul-allen.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/
30vankirk.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/01/
japan.usa  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

 

A Collection of Primary Sources

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162

Edited by William Burr - 202/994-7000

Posted - August 5, 2005

Updated - April 27, 2007

 

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Last Kamikaze

G    11 August 2015

 

 

 

 

The Last Kamikaze

Video        Guardian Features        The Guardian        11 August 2015

 

The last kamikaze:

'I felt the blood was draining from my face'

 

‘It sounds strange,

but we were congratulating each other

for being selected’

for the special suicide attack unit.

 

‘When I knew we had lost the war ...

the thought going through my mind

was I had missed my chance to die ...

and be remembered in infinite glory.’

 

Two Japanese veterans

share memories of the second world war

and the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima.

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qoNE4XwhM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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