Week of the Bomb #4
The last in a series of four episodes on the atomic bomb, from its development to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawn from the words of those who were there. The full text of the quotations used here can be found in the blog versions of these podcasts.
The books used to make these episodes are:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, by Peter Goodchild.
The book that comes to different conclusions than me, and which I hope to devote an entire episode to in the future, is A. C. Grayling's Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
John Else's documentary, The Day After Trinity, can be watched here.
John Bradley's anthology of poets writing about the bomb is Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Atomic Age.
My essay, "Blindness, War & History," first published in the Concho River Review in 2014, can be read here.
Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.
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