Atomic Bomb and Japan: Web Resources

CBS News' look back at the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using photographs and primary documents.

History.com's gallery of photos about the atomic bombs during WW2 with photos and context.

From the Smithsonian Magazine. Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors influence worldwide radiation standards, even 70 years later.

News stories about the atomic bomb.

Article from LiveScience about the atomic bomb which destroyed much of Nagasaki and at least 40,000 people were killed immediately.

Questioning why the U.S. dropped the a-bomb on Japan.

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President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an unpopulated island; or, 4) drop the bomb on an inhabited Japanese city.