Nakamoto, Hiroko, and Pace, M. M. My Japan 1930–51. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
Newcomb, Richard F. Abandon Ship! 1958. Reprint. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.
New York Times. Hiroshima Plus 20. New York: Delacorte Press, 1965. (Baldwin, H. W., “Hiroshima Decision”; Lapp, R. E., “The Einstein Letter.”)
Osada, A. Children of the A-Bomb. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1963.
Osaka, Ichiro. Hiroshima 1945. Tokyo: Chuko Shinso, 1975.
Ota, Y. Shikabane no Machi (Town of Corpses). Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1955.
Oughterson, A. W., and Warren, S., eds. Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956.
Reilly, Michael F. I Was Roosevelt’s Shadow. London: W. Foulsham, 1946.
Russell of Liverpool. The Knights of Bushido. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958.
Ryder, Sue. And the Tomorrow Is Theirs. Bristoclass="underline" Burleigh Press, 1975.
Sakai, Saburo. Samurai. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957.
Schoenberger, Walter S. Decision of Destiny. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1970.
Shigemitsu, Mamoru. Japan and Her Destiny. Translated by Oswald White. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958.
Smith, Alice Kimball. A Peril and a Hope. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Smith, Merriman. Thank You, Mr. President. 1946. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975.
Stimson, Henry L., and Bundy, McGeorge. On Active Service in Peace and War. 1948. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1971.
Storry, Richard. A History of Modern Japan. New York: Penguin Books, 1960.
Takayama, Hitoshi, ed. Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today. Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, 1973.
Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. New York: Atheneum, 1962.
Teller, Edward, and Brown, Allen. The Legacy of Hiroshima. 1962. Reprint. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1975.
Togo, Shigenori. The Cause of Japan. Translated and edited by Togo Fumihiko and Ben Bruce Blakeney. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.
Toland, John. The Rising Sun. New York: Random House, 1970; Bantam Books, 1971.
Truman, Harry S. Year of Decisions. New York: Doubleday, 1955.
Truman, Harry S. Mr. Citizen. New York: Bernard Geis, 1960.
Trumbull, Robert. Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957.
Tully, Grace. F.D.R., My Boss. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949.
Wilson, Jane, ed. All in Our Time. Chicago: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1975.
Zacharias, Ellis M. Secret Missions. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1946.
Individual items, too numerous to mention, many recently declassified, may be found at:
American National Red Cross, Washington: Tinian, medical and social.
Atomic Energy Commission, Historical Office, Washington: Oppenheimer, Research and Development, etc.
Historical Office, State Department, Bureau of Public Affairs, Washington: Interim Committee, etc.
Japanese Defense Agency, Historical Section, Tokyo: General and Specific Naval and Army Activities During World War II.
National Archives, Washington: Record Group No. 77: MED Top Secret Files, MED H&B Files, Top Secret Files of Special Interest to General Groves; Record Group No. 165: OPD Project Decimal Files, OPD Olympic; U.S. Strategic Bombing Surveys, etc.
Naval Historical Center, Washington: Tinian NAB, USS Indianapolis, Oral Interviews, etc.
Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB: Record Groups: GP-509-SU, HI, RE (Comp), HI (Comp), OP-5, Oral Interviews.
B-29 Flight Manual (Familiarization File, USAAF).
Dull, Paul S., and Umemura, Michael T. The Tokyo Trials. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957.
Franck, James. Report of the Committee on Social and Political Implications. June, 1945 (“The Franck Report”; complete text in A Peril and a Hope).
History of the 509th Composite Group, 313 Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Air Force—Activation to 15 August, 1945. Official Historian, Tinian, August 31, 1945.
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (National Archives, esp. vols. 60, 61, 64, 65, 74).
Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference, July 6, 1945, to August 7, 1945. Written and compiled by William M. Rigdon, USN, 1946, with a foreword by Lieutenant George M. Elsey, USNR.
Manhattan Engineer District. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Washington, 1957.
Ossip, Jerome J., ed. 509th Pictorial Album, Tinian, 1945.
Report of the British Mission to Japan. The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London: H.M.S.O., 1946.
Short History of the 509th Group. Roswell, 1947.
Smyth, H. D. A General Account of the Development of the Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940–1945. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.
U.S. Army Air Forces. Mission Accomplished. (Interrogation of Japanese Industrial, Military and Civil Leaders of WW II). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.
U.S. Strategic Bombing Surveys: Interrogations; The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japan’s War Economy; Japan’s Struggle to End the War; The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale; Effects of Air Attack on the City of Hiroshima; Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. All published by Government Printing Office, Washington, 1945–47.
Araki, Takeshi (Foreword). Hiroshima. Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, 1975.
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. “Prelude to Trinity.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 31. no. 4, April 1975; “A Foul and Awesome Display,” vol. 31, no. 5, May 1975.
Batchelor, John, ed. Battle of the Pacific. London: Purnell, 1975.
Bishop, John. “The Trick That Was a Steppingstone to Japan.” Saturday Evening Post, December 23, 1944.
Caron, George R. “Mission Destruction.” Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, November 1959.
Compton, Karl T. “If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used.” Atlantic Monthly, December 1946.
“Fifteen Years Later—The Men Who Bombed Hiroshima.” Coronet, vol. 48, no. 4, August 1960.
Frisch, David H. “Scientists and the Decision to Bomb Japan.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 26, June 1970.
Groves, Leslie R. “Some Recollections of July 16, 1945.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 26, 1970.
Hersey, John. “Hiroshima.” The New Yorker, August 31, 1946.
Kosakai, Yoshiteru (compiler). A-Bomb: A City Tells Its Story. Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, 1972.
Laurence, William L. “The Story of the Atomic Bomb.” The New York Times, 1946.
Leighton, Alexander H. “That Day at Hiroshima.” Atlantic Monthly, October 1946.