Dropping the Atomic Bomb

• Leo Szilard Home Page This is a great home page with information about the building of the first atomic bomb, and about the decision to drop it, much taken from the writings and papers of Leo Szilard.
• Enola Gay This is also a great page: the Enola Gay Perspectives site that was initiated as a group project in Spring 1995 for a class offered by the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, College Park.
• Hiroshima Some Japanese perspectives on the bomb: AFTER HIROSHIMA - Message from Contemporary Art' at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, from July 30 - September 17, 1995
• Hiroshima Links This site in Japan has many links to information about Hiroshima as an element of nuclear history.

Teaching tip from Bruce Russett: On July 27th 1995, the Peter Jennings Report on ABC provided an excellent report on the decision to drop the A-bomb. Contact ABC for information about obtaining a copy of this program. The ABCradioNet ABCradioNet has a lot of interesting, up-to-date informatino about world news, as well.