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  • If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used
    Compton, Karl T. (Atlantic Monthly, 00/00/1946)
    This historic article written by a leading physicist in the Manhattan Project and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, enumerates the arguments for the use of the atomic bombs on Japan.
  • Hiroshima
    Hersey, John (Alfred Knopf, 00/00/1946)
    This classic and initially controversial book remains perhaps the most widely read portrait of the explosion of the Little Boy atomic bomb over Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945.
  • Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb
    Chinnock, Frank W. (The World Publishing Company, 00/00/1946)
    As a testimony to those who experienced the atomic bomb, the author of this book tells of the Nagasaki bombing during World War II from the point of view of anonymous survivors.
  • Reaction to John Hersey's Hiroshima
    Luft, Joseph, Wheeler, W. M. (Journal of Social Psychology, 00/00/1948)
    This article discusses the feelings of American readers about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima after being confronted with John Hersey's 1946 article, Hiroshima, which told the Graphic story of several survivors.
  • The Bomb that Fell on America
    Hagedorn, Hermann (Association Press, 00/00/1950)
    This epic poem addresses how the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki affected America??s people; it describes events during the creation of the bombs and gives the poet's the relationship of the bombings to Christianity.
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Wise, Robert (Twentieth Century Fox, 00/00/1951)
    This film tells the story of Klaatu, an alien who comes to earth on a mission to encourage world and galactic peace and to deliver a warning should this message not be heeded.
  • The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars: The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists, 1933-1952
    Bentwich, Norman (Martinus Nijhoff, 00/00/1953)
    The story of the rescue of Jewish scholars from Nazi Germany and describes some of their subsequent work. It focuses on the expulsion of Jewish professors from German universities and the rescue efforts.
  • Energy in the Future
    Putnam, Palmer C. (D. Van Nostrand, 00/00/1953)
    In this 1953 study commissioned by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the author, an engineer, was tasked to assess maximum global energy demands for the subsequent 100 year period.
  • Godzilla, King of the Monsters
    Honda, Ishiro, Morse, Terry (Toho Co., Ltd., 00/00/1956)
    This film portrays the destruction of Tokyo by Godzilla, an ancient 400??foot Dinosaur awakened by hydrogen bomb testing in the Pacific Ocean.
  • On the Beach
    Shute, Nevil (Ballantine Books, 00/00/1957)
    The story portrays how humanity deals with its own extermination by atomic warfare. It takes place in the early 1960s after a 37-day atomic battle fought by the major nations of the world.
  • Red Alert
    Bryant, Peter (Ace Books, Inc., 00/00/1958)
    This novel follows the story of an American nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, the threat of worldwide annihilation by cobalt bombs that results, and the averting of that threat.
  • Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
    Bohr, Niels (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 00/00/1958)
    Articles explore how the steadily increasing knowledge about physics from 1932 to 1955 is related to broad questions about human knowledge. Addresses the subsequent developments in general philosophical thinking.
  • On the Beach
    Kramer, Stanley (MGM/USA Home Video, 00/00/1959)
    This classic 1959 film, based on the novel, tells the story of the crew of a United States submarine that docks in Australia after a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union has broken out in 1964.
  • The Night Hamburg Died
    Caidin, Martin (Ballantine Books, 00/00/1960)
    This book describes the Allied bombing of Hamburg in July 1943. Caidin's narration is more dramatic and poetic than historical, though he does offer relevant statistics.
  • Burning Conscience
    Anders, Gunther, Eatherly, Claude (Paragon House, 00/00/1961)
    This book presents the correspondence between a German philosopher and Claude Eatherly, who flew the lead B??29 bomber over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and voiced the command to drop the atomic bomb.
  • The Atom Bomb and the Future of Man
    Jaspers, Karl, Ashton, E. B. (University of Chicago Press, 00/00/1961)
    This book identifies the need for mankind to incorporate philosophy into politics in hopes of addressing a variety of questions regarding the atomic bomb. Translated from German into English, it is based on a lecture.
  • The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories
    Szilard, Leo (Stanford University Press, 00/00/1961)
    This book by physicist Leo Szilard contains six short stories that caution against the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons.
  • Fail-Safe
    Burdick, Eugene, Wheeler, Harvey (The Ecco Press, 00/00/1962)
    This Cold War era novel written and set in the 1960s tells the story of a technical malfunction that has the effect of commanding a group of US bombers to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union.
  • Cat's Cradle
    Vonnegut, Kurt (Delatorre Press, 00/00/1963)
    This classic novel tells the story of a writer named Jonah and his adventures on a fictional island, and of a deadly new chemical that can destroy the world.
  • The Physicists
    Durrenmatt, Friedrich (Grove Press, Inc., 00/00/1964)
    This drama, which criticizes modern science and technology in human affairs, was written during the Cold War when many people lived in fear of unexpected nuclear attacks and all too possible worldwide destruction.