The Atomic Bomb
Resources
1. This is an all-encompassing video providing a narrative of World War 2. The final 10 minutes of the video focuses on the Manhattan project, the bombings themselves, and implications regarding atomic weapons, termed “a new era in warfare”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNM8YQNwZQ YouTube search: “WW2 from space”
1. This is an all-encompassing video providing a narrative of World War 2. The final 10 minutes of the video focuses on the Manhattan project, the bombings themselves, and implications regarding atomic weapons, termed “a new era in warfare”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNM8YQNwZQ YouTube search: “WW2 from space”
2. Atomic Bomb Museum: this website (http://atomicbombmuseum.org/index.shtml) is an all-encompassing website, explaining the Manhattan Project, the destructive effects of the atomic bombs, as well as primary sources (pictures, documents). www.atomicbombmuseum.org
3. This website provides a narrative and detailed analysis of the Manhattan Project, complete with cost, month by month analysis, and problems that arose throughout the process. http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp
4. This website provides primary images, videos, and a narrative of the manhattan project.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/362098/Manhattan-Project
5. This video is a re-enactment of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. With eye-witness accounts, survivors take us through the process of what it was like during the moments before, during, and after the bombing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998tSBoa3lo YouTube search: “Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Re-enactment”
6. This video provides an all-encompassing account of the effect of the two atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was published in 1946 and serves as a primary sources, as the narrator describes the damage to the two cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3oSS_FP-cA YouTube search: “This 1946 film shows actual footage of the atomic bomb destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan”
7. The following shows a before and after snapshot of the atomic bomb’s effect on Nagasaki, Japan.
http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/japan-surrenders-world-war-2-ends-9.jpg