Directory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Resources

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Sites relating to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki directly, sites on the damages caused to people and structures, sites with eyewitness descriptions, sites with stories of survivors.

Resources in This Category

• A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-bomb Survival

  http://www.coara.or.jp/~ryoji/abomb/e-index.html
  The memoirs of the late Mr. Takeharu written as a series of postings to a message board with responses from readers all over the world.

• Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

  http://home.windstream.net/jimcorley/account.htm
  An eyewitness account by Father P. Siomes.

• Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombing_of_japan
  Wikipedia article covering the prelude to the bombing, choosing the targets, and the debate over the decision to drop the bombs.

• Hand Them Down to the Next Generation - Testimonies of Bomb Victims

  http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/hibakusha/
  Detailed accounts victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that had returned to Fukuoka Prefecture after war.

• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

  http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/top_e.html
  Offers children's section, message board, virtual museum with multi-media exhibits, call for world peace, and information on the dangers of atomic weapons.

• Hiroshima Speaks Out

  http://h-s-o.net/eng/
  Provides facts, victims' drawings and stories, and essays.

• Nagasaki Journey

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html
  A slide show of Nagasaki after the US dropped its second atomic bomb on Japan, and provides links to commentaries and online public forum of ideas and opinions about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• Photos of the Bomb Damage in Japan

  http://www.nightscribe.com/Military/WW2/bomb_damage_in_japan.htm
  A collection of personal photos taken immediately after the war depicting the damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as other cities due to conventional bombing.

• The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

  http://www.wtj.com/archives/hiroshima.htm
  An eyewitness report written by a German Jesuit priest, Father P. Siemes, with the Novitists of the Society of Jesus in Nagatsuki.

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mpmenu.asp
  The original text document by The Manhattan Engineer District, June 29, 1946 describing in great detail the findings of the official group sent by General Groves to study the bombings.

• Voice of Hibakusha

  http://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/
  Eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima from the video Hiroshima Witness produced by Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK, 1986.

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