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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