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bombings themselves are told in Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, Wyden, Day One, Knebel and Bailey, No High Ground, Russ, Project Alberta, and Charles W. Sweeney, with James A. Antonucci and Marion K. Antonucci, War’s End: An Eyewitness Account of America’s Last Atomic Mission (New York: Avon Books, 1997); Norman Polmar, Enola Gay: The B-29 that Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (Washington: Brassey’s, 2004); Gordon Thomas and Max

Morgan Witts, Enola Gay (New York: Stein and Day, 1977); Merle Miller and Abe Spitzer, We Dropped the A-Bomb (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1946); William Bradford Huie, The Hiroshima Pilot (New York: G. P Putnam’s and Sons, 1964); Hanson W Baldwin, ‘Hiroshima Decision’, in Hiroshima Plus 20; and Norman E Ramsey, ‘August 1945: The B-29 Flight Logs’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 38/10 (Dec. 1982), 33-5.

John Hersey’s Hiroshima, serialized in the New Yorker then published in 1946 (New York: Knopf, 1946), broke the silence of the survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. It is an arresting account. Interested readers should see also Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6—September

30, 1945, trans. Warner Wells (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1955); Kenzaburo Oe, Hiroshima Notes, trans. David J. Swain and Toshi Yonezawa (New York: Grove Press, 1996 [1965]); Kenzaburo Oe, ed., The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath (New York: Grove Press, 1995); Robert J. Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967); Toyofumi Ogura, Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima, trans. Kisaburo Murakami and Shigeru Eujii (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1997); Arata Osada, ed., Children of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Publishing Committee for Children of Hiroshima, 1980); Japanese Broadcasting Corporation ed., Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic Bomb Survivors, ed. (New York: Pantheon, 1977); Pacific War Research Society (PWRS), The Day Man Lost: Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 (Palo Alto: Kodansha International, 1972); Lequita Vance-Watkins and Aratani Mariko, eds. and trans., White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1:995); Richard H. Minear, ed. and trans., Hiroshima: Three Witnesses (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990); John W Dower, ‘The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory’, in Hogan, Hiroshima in History and Memory, 116—42; John Whittier Treat, Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995); James N. Yamazaki, with Louis B. Fleming, Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995); Kyoko Selden and Mark Selden, eds., The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989); and Kurihara Sadako, When We Say ‘Hiroshima’: Selected Poems, trans. with an intro. by Richard H. Minear (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999).

For a superb historical context for the American—Japanese relationship, see Walter LaEeber, The Clash: US—Japanese Relations throughout History (New York: W W Norton, 1997). A vital source for the response to the war’s end of the Japanese generally is Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore E Cook, Japan at War: An Oral History (New York: New Press, 1992).

The Emperor Hirohito, his advisers, his War Cabinet, and the so-called Big Six decisionmakers had an anguished debate over whether to surrender after 6 August, and on what terms. Robert J. C. Butow, Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1954), does not get it all right, but holds up remarkably well given the limited sources available to Butow in the early 1950s. More authoritative is Herbert P Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), and his essay ‘Japan’s Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation’, in Hogan, Hiroshima in History and Memory, 80

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