Roleff, Ed., The Atom Bomb

Abstract

This is a collection of primary and secondary sources about the development of the first atomic bomb and some of its results. The first chapters show the development of the bomb from its conception to its successful test at the Trinity site in New Mexico. The editor includes articles that relate to the debate about using the bomb. We hear from Secretary of State Henry Stimson, military analyst Hanson Baldwin, and historian Gar Alperovitz. The most personal and moving accounts are by Atsuku Tsujiko, a Hiroshima survivor, and Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bock's Car, who dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki.