Hiroshima_ The World's Bomb - Andrew J. Rotter [213]
12. Albert Camus, ‘Between Hell and Reason’, in Bird and Lifschultz, Hiroshima’s Shadow, 260—1; Wittner, One World or None, 108—54.
13. Lawrence S. Wittner, The Struggle against the Bomb, ii. Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement 1954—1970 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997); iii. Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement 1971 to the Present (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003).
epilogue
1. William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, ‘With Eye on Iran, Rivals Also Want Nuclear Power’, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2007.
2. Richard Sale (UPI), ‘Israel Finds Radiological Backpack Bomb’, 14 Oct. 2001, http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/israelf.htm, accessed 14 Apr. 2007; Abby Goodnough and Matthew L. Wald, ‘Marshals Shoot and Kill Passenger in Bomb Threat’, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2005.
3. ‘Board Statement: 5 Minutes to Midnight’, Bulletin Online, 17 Jan. 2007; http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/board-statements.html, accessed 23 Apr. 2007. See also Walter Pincus, ‘Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan’, Washington Post, 11 Sept. 2005, online, accessed 17 Apr. 2007.
4. Stuart Jeffries, ‘Fanning the Flames’, Guardian, 23 Dec. 2006.
Bibliographical Essay
This book hopes to recast somewhat the strident debate over the use of the atomic bomb by placing the issue in a broadly global context. But it relies for its material largely on the published scholarship. Happily, there is a good deal of this, and much is of excellent quality. Start with three collections of documents on the bomb and particularly the decisions to build and use it: Dennis Merrill, ed., Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, i. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan (Washington: University Publications of America, 1995); Philip L. Cantelon, Richard G. Hewlett, and Robert C. Williams, eds., The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 2nd edn. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991); and Michael B. Stoff, Jonathan F Fanton, and R. Hal Williams, eds., The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991). After 6 August 1945, newspapers and magazines were filled with stories and comment about the bombing of Hiroshima; the New York Times had thoughtful coverage of the event and its implications, while the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded in December 1945, carries to this day some of the best writing, commentary, and reminiscence on the issue, often by nuclear scientists.
Speaking of reminiscence, useful memoirs by scientists and those close to them include Arthur Holly Compton, Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956); two books by Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954), and Atoms for the World: United States Participation in the Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957); Otto Hahn, My Life: The Autobiography of a Scientist, trans. Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (New York: Herder and Herder, 1970); Rudolf E. Peierls’s collected Atomic Histories (Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1997); a summary of five lectures given at Los Alamos by Robert Serber—The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, ed. with an introduction by Richard Rhodes (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992); and Spencer R. Weart and Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds., Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts: Selected Recollections and Correspondence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978). Two collections that include scientists’ reminiscences are Hiroshima Plus 20, prepared by the New York Times and introduced by John W Finney (New York: Delacorte Press, 1962), and
Richard S. Lewis and Jane Wilson, with Eugene Rabinowitch,