Chase Keeler

Primary Sources

Manis, Jim. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Diss. e Pennsylvania State University, 2000. penn: Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication, 2000. Print. This source describes in great detail, the Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb killed a devastating 66,000 people and injured over 69,000 people. The atomic bombs were able to destroy each city and radiate all surrounding land. The essay talks about the new technology the atomic bomb used. They named the two atomic bombs the fat man and the little boy. The atomic bomb was developed in the Manhattan project. This source helps my topic because it explains the technology used to create the atomic bomb and the effects it had on the people who were involved in the nuclear blast the bomb created. The atomic bomb was the first of its kind. fisher, colonol. priority targets . Top secret . Notes on initial meeting. Washington D.C.: Goverment, 1945. Print. This source is a government document describing the atomic bomb and how big of an effect it will have. It talks about dates and when they dropped the bombs and things like that. It shows the plan for dropping the bomb and what exactly it will do. It has a bunch of signatures on it of government people though I cant read them. This source helps my topic because it helped me understand how much planning and secrecy went into the nuclear bombing of Japan. The document says top secret on it

showing me that they didnt want anyone else to know when and where this was going to happen. They had a careful step by step process they were using to do this project with.

Siemes, Johannes. "The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima." War Times Journal. 1.1 (2003): 1-3. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. This source talked about the date and times the bombing happened. It had an eye witness account to talk about the day the atomic bomb was dropped. The man describes all of the injured people going into the church looking for help. There were dead and wounded people everywhere and then radiation poisoning took effect and killed many more. This eye witness account helped me better understand my topic because I know what it was like for the people involved in the nuclear explosion. The man talks about his feelings of using the atomic bomb. He questioned the tactic you have to end lives to save lives. I learnt that many people really suffered and thousands were left homeless. Stimson, Henry. "THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB (FEBRUARY 1947) ."Columbia University. 1.1 (2004): 1-26. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. This source is filled with many different documents about the atomic bomb. It talks about the necessity to quickly end the war so many more people didnt die. They really did not want to use nuclear weapons but they felt like they had no other choice. The documents talk about how they came to the decision to drop the weapons of mass destruction on thousands of civilians they said they had to make an example so they could put a stop to the war.

This source helped me understand my topic better because it gives me the views and the reasons the government had to make to drop the atomic bomb. It was a very hard risky decision but it did put an end to World War 2 and put a stop to the fighting and killing. Secondary sources
"The First Atomic Bomb Is Detonated 1945." People and Discoveries. AP/Wide World Photos, 1998. Web. 15 Dec. 2012. This secondary source taught me many various things about the atomic bomb. It talks about the new technology used in the atomic bomb. The website talks about the effects the bomb will have. It finishes off by saying that the atomic bomb influenced all types of weapons created afterwards. This source helps me understand my topic better because now I know some pretty interesting things about the atomic bomb. I learnt about how and when the bomb was dropped. I learnt that after the atomic bomb was dropped World War 2 was officially over. "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I Am Become Death." Spoken-gems.com. WordPress, 07 July 2011. Web. 09 Jan. 2013.

J. Robert Oppenheimer made a short speech and it became very famous. In his speech he states that he has become death the destroyer of worlds. He makes this short speech with regret. He helped make a weapon capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people in mere seconds. He made a weapon of death and destruction and he doesnt feel good knowing that he did. This primary source helps me understand the mindset of the people who created it reacted when the bomb became a huge success.

"The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima." N.p., n.d. Web. This secondary source talks a lot about the effects the atomic bomb had on the city of Hiroshima. It talks about people with really bad burns and how many people died of radiation poisoning. It also talks about Nagasaki and how the atomic bomb affected it and the people involved in it.

This source helps answer my topic on the atomic bomb because I learned a lot about the after effects of the atomic bomb and what other people did to help the survivors.

"Avalon Project - The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Avalon Project - The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2012. This secondary source that was written by yale about the atomic bomb talked about almost everything that the atomic bomb did. I learned about the Manhattan project and what the atomic bombs lasting effects on Japan were. This source helps me understand my topic more by describing the new technology inside the atomic bomb and what exactly the atomic bomb did to the people involved in its atomic blast. Dannen, Gene. "Trinity Test, July 16, 1945 - Eyewitness Accounts." Atomic Bomb: Decision -. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Jan. 2013.

This website has several eye witness accounts from people who witnessed the atomic bomb being dropped. This helps me understand my topic more by being able to see what other people saw when the atomic bomb was dropped.

"Atomic Bomb Records & Newspapers." Atomic Bomb Records. Archives, n.d. Web. 09 Jan. 2013. This website contains a newspaper article that was published after the United States dropped the atomic bomb. This helps me understand my topic more because I know how the media portrayed the atomic bomb on Japan.
Kelly, Cynthia C. The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007. Print. This book is all about the Manhattan project and how it affected the world and how we fight in wars. It talks about how we reached the decision to drop the bomb and it has eye witness accounts.

This book helps me understand my topic more because the book contains loads of information on the Atomic bomb and how it affected the world.

Hamby, Alonzo. "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb."Journal of American History. 84.2 (1997): 1. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. I used this source because it gives valuable information on the atomic bomb. It talks about how they came to the decision to drop it. Marshall, EDWARD. "In the shadow of the atomic bomb."Journal Staff Writer. 15.3 (2010): 13. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. This source talks about what the atomic bomb did and why they used. It helps me understand my topic better so I know exactly what the atomic bomb was capable of.