NHD topic- Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources-

1. This is a journal of political and international studies in PDF form written by Blake E.
Adams about the general personality and leadership of President Truman.
This PDF President Truman's Personality and Leadership- is mostly opinionated. The journal
talks about how the New York City Times overpraised him as a "decisive president." Harry
Truman made major decisions as the 33rd president and some of those decisions affected us
greatly. “The atomic bomb, the Soviet intervention in the affairs of Greece and Turkey, and the
communist invasion of South Korea were examples of major decisions which had extreme
consequences”. This was written january 1, 1987.

2. This website is a government website for all presidents and in the category Truman I
found primary sources. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Research File.
The website has many primary sources to use. The research file is a press released by the
White House, on August 6, 1945. There's was statements in the file. The president explained
what happened when the first atomic bomb was dropped, The idea behind building the atomic
bomb, and how it was the right thing to do to speed up Japan’s surrender.

3. This website The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb seems like a credible site to get
information from, its a government website. I used this website multiple times as a
primary source because it has photographic evidence of letters, reports and statements
from Truman. It has quotes that Truman said himself and it has an explanations coming
from Truman and how he felt about the droppings of the two bombs. This particular
part of the website shows everything relating to truman and the bombing, to other
presidents talking to him, to him testing out the bombs in secret and more.
But in this primary source I am looking at the survey. The effects of the bombings.

4. This website is called The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.The website had a
collection of documents that tracks the development of the atomic bomb and the
decision to use them on japan.

5. A website to the PBS American Experience film Truman, the site contains primary
source documents from Truman’s presidency, including many that connects to the
decision to drop the bombs. FROM THE COLLECTION: THE PRESIDENTS

6. By the Bomb's Early Light -I didn't read the book for my project I found excerpts and
compared it to real life effects after the droppings of the bombs. The book was written
 by Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the
Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
“From reviews and blogs it is an in-depth inspection of America’s struggles to deal with
the political connection of atomic weapons in the years immediately following the end of World
War II”.

7. The Trinity Test-I got the video of The Trinity test on Youtube. This is a primary source
because the test was recorded. Credits goes to the channel AtomicHeritage.

8. Einstein-Szilard Letter -This is a government website. This website has the first hand
account of Albert Einstein letter to President Roosevelt. The letter Einstein sent to
President roosevelt is warn about the new development in nuclear weapons in
Germany. This letter made the U.S want to development an nuclear weapon before
germany.

9. Emperor Hirohito, Accepting the Potsdam Declaration, Radio Broadcast- This is a

primary source because its word for word quoting what emperor Hirohito said when he
accepted The potsdam Declaration.. The website shows the day the broadcast was
recorded.

Secondary Sources-

10. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - This is also a government website. The website
explains what Nuclear weapons are. “Nuclear bombs are weapons of mass destruction.
They harness the forces that hold the nucleus of an atom together by using the energy
released when the particles of the nucleus (neutrons and protons) are either split or
merged.”- from the website
 11. The Manhattan Project . This website contains information and a brief summary on
what the Manhattan project did and what did it change. “In 1938, three chemists
working in a laboratory in Berlin made a discovery that would alter the course of history:
they split the uranium atom. The energy released when this splitting, or fission, occurs is
tremendous--enough to power a bomb. But before such a weapon could be built,
numerous technical problems had to be overcome”.

12. Emperor Hirohito notified about Hiroshima A-bomb half day after
This article is news, it's about how the emperor of japan at the time responded to the dropping
of the bomb. It explains how the emperor was extremely upset and he showed grief because he
lost his people. He also had meets where the bombs were dropped and he showed respect and
grief.

13. Harry S. Truman In reply to a question at a symposium, Columbia University, NYC (28
Apr 1959). In Truman Speaks (1960), 67.
This is where I got the quote from President Truman about the Atomic bombs.

14. Truman Tells Stalin, July 24, 1945 - This website shows quoted information about
President Truman's side of the story . He claims he told stalin about the nuclear weapon
by briefly mentioning it . This website also shows other sides of the story including
Stalins.

15. This website isn’t a government site but it is a common site to learn about history. The
website explained where the conference took place, what they talked about/ agreed on,
and the problems leading up to the atomic bomb droppings . Potsdam Conference -
This is what I used to find out that President truman mentioned the atomic bombs to
stalin but didn't tell him it was a nuclear weapon.