"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again...every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably."

                                              - Walter Benjamin 

Films

Atomic Cafe
directed by Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty & Kevin Rafferty
1982, 80 min. New Yorker Films (212) 247-6110

Crossroads
directed by Bruce Conner
1976, 60 min. Canyon Cinema (415) 626-2255

Dark Circle
directed by Judy Irving and Christopher Beaver
New Yorker Films (212) 247-6110 and The Video Project (800) 4-PLANET

The Day After Trinity
directed by Jon Else
1981, 90 min. Pyramid Film & Video (800) 828-7577

Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun
directed by Nocolette Freeman and Amanda Stewart
1990, 50 min. The Video Project 800 4-PLANET

Hiroshima: Was Truman's Decision to Use the Bomb Justified?
produced by Zenger Video
20 min. The Video Project (800) 4-PLANET

Hiroshima - Nagasaki, August 1945,
produced by Erick Barnouw and Akira Iwasaki
1970, 16 min. Museum of Modern Art (212) 708-9530 and The Video Project (800) 4-PLANET

Nagasaki Journey
directed by Judy Irving and Christopher Beaver
1995, 28 min. The Video Project (800) 4-PLANET

Rhapsody in August,
directed by Akira Kurosawa
1992, 98 min. New Yorker Films (212) 247-6110

CD-Roms

The Day After Trinity
based on the film by Jon Else, produced by Voyager 1995. Voyager (800) 446-2001 or http://www.voyagerco.com

Jayne Loader's Public Shelter,
written and directed by Jayne Loader,
produced by Eric Schwaab for EJL Productions, New York 1995

Books

Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: the use of the atomic bomb and the American confrontation with Soviet power.
London/Boulder, Colo.: Pluto Press, 1994.

Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Brooks, Lester. Behind Japan's Surrender.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
Decision making by the Japanese government during the final days of World War II.

Burrows, William E. & Robert Windrem. Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Chinnock, Frank W. Nagasaki, The Forgotten Bomb.
New York: World Publishing Company, 1969.

The City of Nagasaki (Nagasaki International Cultural Hall), ed. The Records of the Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki.
Nagasaki: Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace, n.d.

Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War.
New York: The New Press, 1992.
Oral history from the Japanese perspective.

Costello, John. The Pacific War, 1941-1945.
New York: Rawson, Wade, 1981.

Del Tredici, Robert. At Work in the Fields of the Bomb.
New York: Perennial Library, 1987.
Photography.

Fermi, Rachel and Esther Samra. Picturing the Bomb.
Harry Abrams, 1995.(forthcoming)
Photographic archives from the Manhattan Project.

Gallagher, Carole. American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War.
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1993.
Photography and testimony.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima.
New York: Knopf, 1946.

Hirokawa, Taishi. Still Crazy: Nuclear Power Plants as Seen in Japanese Landscapes.
Kyoto: Korinsha Press & Co, 1994.
Photography.

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Publishing Committee, ed. Hiroshima-Nagasaki: A Pictorial Record of the Atomic Destruction.
Tokyo: The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Publishing Committee, 1978.

Lamont, Lansing. Day of Trinity.
New York: Signet Books, 1965.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.
New York: Random House, 1968.

Lifton, Robert Jay. The Future of Immortality.
New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1987.

Nobile, Philip,ed. Judgment at the Smithsonian.
Marlowe & Co., 1995.
A must-read account of the museum's Enola Gay debacle.

Powers, Thomas. Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb.
New York: Knopf, 1993.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Schell, Jonathan. The Fate of the Earth.
New York: Knopf, 1982.
A book-length essay opposing nuclear weapons.

Shiotsuki, Masao. Doctor at Nagasaki.
Tokyo: Kosei Publishing, 1987.

Tsuchida, Hiromi. Hiroshima.
Tokyo: Kosei Publishing, 1985.
Photographs of Hiroshima (1979-83) and testimony.

Yamazaki, James N. & Louis B. Fleming. Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands.
Duke University Press, 1995. (forthcoming)

The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ed. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings.
New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Kitajima, Munehito, ed. Atomized Nagasaki: The Bombing of Nagasaki-A Photographic Record.
Tokyo: Daiichi Publishing, 1952. Reprint, Tokyo, Gakufu Shoin Publishers, 1959.
Includes almost the entire Nagasaki Journey archive. Out of print.

Morishita, Ittetsu. Hibakusha.
Tokyo: Holp Shuppan Publishers, 1985.
Photography.

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