Atomic Bomb Decision
Dave Marshall - Social Studies
Atomic Bomb Decision
http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare.Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form. In most cases, the originals are in the U.S. National Archives. Other aspects of the decision are shown from accounts by the participants. This page was new May 29, 1995, and it was last updated August 9, 2003.
The Atomic Bomb: Truman's Decision - Should the bomb have been dropped?
http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrhome.htm
Years after the bombings of Japan, people all over the world are still questioning the justification of Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's been said that the bomb was an immoral act of injustice, yet others see it as the only solution for ending World War II. At the time, the bomb was a promise of peace. However, after the damages were assessed, the world began to realize what a horrible and fatal mistake it was -- that the atomic bomb had in actuality done more harm than good.The Decision to Drop the Bomb
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/wwii/
Imagine it is 1945 and World War II has just come to a conclusion. Just before the end of the War, the Atomic Bomb was dropped on and Nagasaki. Many wonder whether dropping the bomb was necessary but others think it was in order to limit the amount of Allied casualties and bring the long arduous war to an end. A community in California is getting together to discuss the reason for dropping the bomb. Four teams of people representing a Japanese citizen, President Truman's advisor, the Secretary of Defense, and a nuclear physicist will congregate to debate this controversial issue. Your role as one of these people is to research your particular point of view and decide whether dropping the Atomic Bomb was necessary or not.A Bomb WWW Museum - Hiroshima, Japan Based Group Asks For Peace Messages
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - July 6, 2000 - Every year, in Hiroshima, Japan, people float lanterns with prayers, thoughts, and messages of peace down the rivers in commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Until this year, the only way to join this celebration was to go to Hiroshima personally, but now a group of volunteers have started a website that will allow people from around the world to join in. The site, URL, allows visitors to both write in messages and view messages that others have left from across the planet. On August 6th, during the Lantern Floating Festival, the messages will be printed out and assembled into a series of lanterns that will be floated down the rivers.Should the Atomic Bomb Have Been Dropped?
http://www.trschools.k12.wi.us/trhs/social_studies/atomicbombwquest/GroupRoles.html
A webquest about the "Bomb".The Great Atomic Bomb Debate
http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/9701/bomb2.htm
During 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the United States planned to issue a postage stamp showing the Hiroshima atomic mushroom cloud with the words: "Atomic bombs hasten war's end, August 1945." The Japanese government protested, and the stamp was canceled.The atomic bomb issue carries perennial symbolic potency: Hiroshima commemorizations each August 6 trigger journalistic deliberation around the world about the morality of the first and only use of atomic weapons.
York County School of Technology
Updated last - 24 February 2005