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www.wikipedia.org I used Wikipedia for a broad sense of information, and the pictures below. It helped me get a sort of guideline on what I wanted to do. It was useful for setting up a basic structure for my boarda basic structure for my board.

www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/m2-1e.html This website gave me a good idea of what it must have been like to be in the bombing. It puts you in the view of someone in Nagasaki during the bombing. It also provided the picture viewed below.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm This site gave me very basic information, and provided a video of the bombing. The article is interesting, because it is an actual article from the day that we bombed Nagasaki. This was good to give me a picture of what the americans thought of the bombing.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm This particular website was great for informing me of the destructive power of the Fat Man. It gave great details on how the bomb was made, and how it was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, and the pure energy that the bomb must have released.

http://www.csi.ad.jp/suzuhari-es/1000cranes/nagasaki/index.html This site actually talked about the memorial put on the very spot directly below the spot where the Fat Man was dropped. It also gives you the damage report of the bombing, and information on what was expected to become of the city. It also provided the picture below.


http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/ This site gave very detailed information on everything about both the Fat Man and the Little Boy. Everything about it was very helpful, and I got a lot of my details from here. It also talks about the current generation living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and gives their opinion on the bombing. It really helped me feel for those who were affected by the bombings. It also provided the picture below.


http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm This site compared the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to each other.It gave small bits of information on both bombings, but not too much. The main reason I used this site was the two following pictures.

http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/n50/disaster/medical-E.html This is a medical site that gives information on what the Nagasaki bombing caused health wise to those who survived the bombing, but either died or became sick later. There are dozens of different diseases, wounds, and mutations that the bomb caused, it's kind of disgusting.

Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945-By John Lewis This Book theorizes whether the nuclear bombings prevented a WW|||, it was very interesting, because it gave you evidence on both sides, whether it did, or did not prevent a third World War.

Thinking about International Ethics: Moral Theory and Cases from American Foreign Policy- By Frances Vryling Harbour This book gave different views of whether the bombing was ethically correct, by many different scholars. It got very boring very quickly, but some of the scholars made good points on why the bombing was a good or bad thing.

A bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- By Manhatt the Manhattan Engineer District This was a book about how the normal citizens of the United States felt about the bombing back when it occured. It was interesting because many of the people were spiteful toward the Japanese, but did not feel that they deserved such cruel punishment.

Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War- By Robert Anthony Pape This book talks about why the bombings were nessecary, and also why Tokyo took so long to surrender, even though they had just gotten nuked two times. It helped me to understand the U.S. and Japanese goverment's view on the bombings.

Voices of a People's History of the United States By howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove This book gave a view on the before and after the Nagasaki Bombing. It was a good read, because it had a couple of surviver recounts. I thoroghly enjoyed reading this, and it really helped me.