bombardment, 1945

Contains essays in which historians examine the bombing of Japan by the United States in 1945, surveying the literature on the event, considering the deliberations that led to the decision to use the atomic bomb, and looking at how people in both countries have remembered Hiroshima since World War II.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Describes the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the events leading up to the bombings, and the aftermath.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

A book for young readers about the presidential decision to drop the atomic bomb over Japan in 1945.

Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.

Provides an overview of the atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States that brought an end to World War II in the Pacific.

Hoping to finally end World War II the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan on August 6 1945. Three days later the U.S. dropped another massive bomb on Nagasaki Japan. The result was total devastation. Within seconds of the blasts more than 120 000 men women and children died. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness in the months to come. The war was over but the ongoing fear of nuclear destruction had begun.