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Web Links to Hiroshima
This site provides many weblinks to Hiroshima, Japan. The focus is on sites related to the atomic bombing, but many other Hiroshima sites are also included.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
History, archival film footage, photographs, pictures, maps, and biographies of people connected to the bombings, and related documents and resources.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Hiroshima Through Japanese Eyes
This lesson plan lets students research about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima from the viewpoint from a Japanese girl, Sadako.
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Atom Central: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Read this detailed account of the decision and action to drop two atomic bombs on Japan after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
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Seattle Times: Fifty Years From Trinity
This article from the Seattle Times describes the dawning of the atomic age. Illustrates the events of the detonation of the first atomic bomb in Trinity, New Mexico, just before the Hiroshima bomb.
Yale University
Summary of Damages and Injuries
Outlines the devastation the atomic bomb had on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Atomic Bomb
[Free Registration/Login Required] How necessary was it for the United States to drop the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War II? In this instructional activity, students will study varying accounts and develop their own...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Manhattan Project
Students will discuss the role of technology of the atomic bomb and explore the destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during WWII. Students will then outline some of the social and political changes that resulted from the Manhattan Project.
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Nuclearfiles.org: Chronology on Decision to Bomb
This detailed chronology of the events and communication of 1945-1946 shows Truman's role in the process of the decision to drop the world's first atomic bomb used in warfare upon Hiroshima and then the second upon Nagasaki. Also...
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The War Times Journal: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
A first-hand account by a survivor who was a German priest at a Jesuit church located about 3 miles from Hiroshima. His story covers both the blast and the aftermath and gives valuable primary source details about the bombing.
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The War Times Journal: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
A first-hand account by a survivor who was a German priest at a Jesuit church located about 3 miles from Hiroshima. His story covers both the blast and the aftermath and gives valuable primary source details about the bombing.
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The War Times Journal: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
A first-hand account by a survivor who was a German priest at a Jesuit church located about 3 miles from Hiroshima. His story covers both the blast and the aftermath and gives valuable primary source details about the bombing.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Eleanor Coerr's book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a biography about Sadako Sasaki, is provided on these pages. Speaking parts for all students in a classroom are available in this activity.
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Hiroshima Explosion (Photo: Smithsonian Institution)
Published on 8/04/05, the BBC interviewed three of the men involved in the mission to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. We get their viewpoints and an understanding of what their duties were on that day.
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Enola Gay Returns After Hiroshima Mission (Photo: Smithsonian Institution)
Published on 8/04/05, the BBC interviewed three of the men involved in the mission to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. We get their viewpoints and an understanding of what their duties were on that day.
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Bbc: The Men Who Bombed Hiroshima
Published on 8/04/05, the BBC interviewed three of the men involved in the mission to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. We get their viewpoints and an understanding of what their duties were on that day.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Chapter Iii: Summary of Damages and Injuries
This page details the damages and injuries caused by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. The information comes from Chapter 3 of the book The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District, published in...
Digital History
Digital History: The Aftermath of the Decision [Pdf]
A touching and horrifying description of the devastation caused by the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which brought about the surrender of Japan in World War II. Suggested student exercises accompany the information....
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The Legacy Project: Jacob Lawrence
After briefly highlighting the life of Jacob Lawrence in a factual biography marked with bibliography references, this site provides links to pictures of Lawrence's works including Wounded Man, Hiroshima, and The Prayer.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Fifties 1945 1960
World War II ends with the legacy of its final moment: the atomic bomb. After reading comprehensive background material, interactive feature lets you decide if President Truman was correct in his decision to drop atomic bombs on...
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Dannen.com: Atomic Bomb Decision
This site has information about the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The information is detailed and in depth. Contains many links to related sites.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Atomic Bomb Facts
Discusses lost nuclear weapons, the power of an atomic bomb, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the development of the atomic bomb, the making of the hydrogen bomb, the detonation of a hydrogen bomb by Russia in 1961, and the status...
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