Pro/Con of the Atomic Bomb

Created  Winter 2012

Facts on File database use key words: Manhattan project, nuclear test ban…

http://www.2facts.com/icof_home_feature.aspx

Gale Discovering Collections database: use keywords to narrow the search to applicable articles.

http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=moli34892

Pro/Con on dropping the atomic bomb on Japan

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/trinity/supplement/procon.html

Debating the development of the atomic bomb, and the decision to drop it on Japan

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/atomic.htm

Modern history: The Atomic Bomb.  Includes information about the development of the atomic bomb, and the decision to use it against Japan.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/atomicbomb.html

A wiki on which graduate students review books on American history, this particular summary gives insight and at very least offers new keywords on the subject of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/schrag/wiki/index.php?title=The_Decision_to_Drop_the_Atomic_Bomb

The historical role of German scientists in the development of nuclear weapons

http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/72pavel.pdf

The American Debate on Nuclear Weapons Policy

http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/1987-1-2/AK_Lackey_1987.pdf

Truman library: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php

Third and final report to the secretary of the Navy:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/cno/cnorpt_3.html#combat

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/japansur/japansur.htm

Nuclear Power: The End of the War Against Japan By Professor Duncan Anderson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuclear_01.shtml#four

DebatePedia. International Debate Education Association.

http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Bombing_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Ethics:_Is_it_morally_right_to_use_atomic_bombs.3F

Atomic Bomb, May 1945.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/atomicbomb.html

Common Dearms. Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0806-25.htm

Prethinking questions, lessons and follow up discussion on the attitude of the general public in the emotional aftermath of Pearl Harbor.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/teachers/tgtotal.html

No surrender in WWII for the Japanese:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/japan_no_surrender_01.shtml

Dropping bomb was to protect Japan from total annihilation:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-hiroshima/

Japanese atrocities in the Philipinnes:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/peopleevents/e_atrocities.html

American prisoners of war:

http://www.historynet.com/american-prisoners-of-war-massacre-at-palawan.htm

Soviet Invasion of Japan: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-declare-war-on-japan-invade-manchuria