LIVING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: USEFUL LINKS
A-BOMB WWW
MUSEUM: A resource
site supported by the government of Hiroshima.
: A site that explores the history surrounding the invention and
development of atomic weapons.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI -- WIKIPEDIA: A brief overview from the on-line encyclopedia.
ATOMIC
VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT:
Includes approximately 600 accounts from American servicemen who witnessed
atomic and hydrogen bomb tests.
: A tourist and historical public web-site that includes extensive
information about the American tests of the the post-World War II era and
their continuing legacy.
BOMB PROJECT: An
impressive series of links to nuclear-related resources.
CITIZEN KURCHATOV -- STALIN'S BOMB MAKER: The companion web-site for a PBS documentary.
CITY OF HIROSHIMA -- DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE:
This City of Hiroshima Peace Promotion Division project combines history of
the August 6, 1945 bombing with contemporary anti-nuclear activism.
COPENHAGEN : The
companion web-site for the PBS production of playwright Michael Frayn's
philosophical speculation that uses the relationship between physicists Neils
Bohr and and Werner Heisenberg as its focus.
DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB:
A series of primary documents from the Truman Presidential Museum.
ENOLA GAY
CONTROVERSY -- HOW DO WE REMEMBER A WAR THAT WE WON?:
A lesson, initially designed as part of a Lehigh University first-year writing
course, that centers on the controversy of the proposed 1995 Smithsonian
exhibit on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
GALLERY OF U.S. NUCLEAR TESTS: Extensive information on the 1945-1962 era of American atmospheric testing.
HIROSHIMA
ARCHIVE: A site
originally designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bombing by Mayu
Tsuruya for Portland's Lewis and Clark College.
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI:
This Nuclear Age Peace Foundation resource includes background information
about the decision to drop the 1945 bombs, primary documents and the text of
the cancelled 1995 Smithsonian "Enola Gay" exhibit.
MANHATTAN PROJECT HERITAGE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC:
The web-site for an organization dedicated to "preserving, exhibiting,
interpreting and teaching the history of the Manhattan Project."
MODERN HISTORY -- THE ATOMIC BOMB: Important primary documents and background context from Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project.
NAGASAKI JOURNEY: The
a-bomb photographs of Yosuke Yamahata.
: Includes contemporary information, a timeline and lesson plans.
NUCLEAR MADNESS: A section of the Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties web-site.
NUCLEAR WEAPON
ARCHIVE -- A GUIDE TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
Detailed information about contemporary national arsenals and background
historical information.
OPERATION CROSSROADS -- WIKIPEDIA: A brief introduction to the Summer 1946 American atomic tests that represented the 4th and 5th explosions in history.
PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
A NobelPrize.org game in which you are given the mission of disarming the
world.
PROTECT AND SURVIVE -- AN ARCHIVE OF UK CIVIL DEFENCE MATERIALS:
Pamphlets dating from the 1950s through the 1980s.
SPECIAL REPORT: THE 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF JAPAN (August 3, 2000):
An in-depth feature from the Asia Society.
WAS TRUMAN A HERO OR A VILLAIN?:
A unit from the United Kingdom's National Archives Learning Curve 20th Century
Heroes and Villains lesson that focuses upon the American President's decision
to drop the atomic bomb.
HARRY S TRUMAN,
Threatens Japan With Further Atomic Attacks, August 9, 1945: A brief audio clip
from the History Channel's Speech Archive.
BERNARD BARUCH,
American Financier and Diplomat, Calls For International Control Of Atomic
Weapons, June 14, 1946: A brief audio clip
from the History Channel's Speech Archive.
JOHN F. KENNEDY,
Discloses Discovery Of Soviet Missile Sites In Cuba, October 22, 1962: A brief audio clip
from the History Channel's Speech Archive.
DEAN RUSK,
U.S. Secretary of State, On The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: A brief audio clip
from the History Channel's Speech Archive.