Atomic Bomb


Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Hiroshima
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
The Wives of Los Alamos
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
The Atomic City Girls
The Secret Project
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesHiroshima Notes by Kenzaburō ŌeBarefoot Gen, Volume Two by Keiji NakazawaThe Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
Remember Hiroshima
43 books — 28 voters
Hiroshima by John HerseyHiroshima Diary by Michihiko HachiyaBlack Rain by Masuji IbuseBarefoot Gen, Volume One by Keiji NakazawaBarefoot Gen, Volume Two by Keiji Nakazawa
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
37 books — 13 voters


Steven Magee
“ I wake up every day thinking: Is this the day the proxy wars have resulted in a nuclear catastrophe? ”
― Steven Magee

Lesley M.M. Blume
“ Summoned by Congress that November to testify about use of the bombs on Japan and their after-effects, the [General Groves] eventually conceded that radiation had been responsible for some of the deaths in the atomic cities, but informed the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy that doctors had assured him that radiation poisoning “is a very pleasant way to die. ”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

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