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Abé Mark NornesThe Body at the Center: The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ágota Duró, A Pioneer among the South Korean Atomic Bomb Victims: Significance of the Son Jin-doo Trial

Aidan W. Seipke, Shadows of Hiroshima: The Evolution of Atomic Bomb Memories Explored Through Japanese Manga

Ali Mahmoud, Shahzeb Hassan, Taha Osman Mohammed, and Leonard J. Hoenig, MD, A monument in Hiroshima

Amy Knowles"I am a Living History": A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Atomic Bomb Survivors

Amy Sodaro, Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

Andrea Boeckers, Environmental Racism: Nuclear Waste as an Agent of Oppression?

Anne McClintock, Imperial Ghosting and National Tragedy: Revenants from Hiroshima and Indian Country in the War on Terror

Anonymous, Stop the Bomb: An Appeal to the Reason of the American People

Arjun Makhijani, Reflections on the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and the Present Nuclear Resurgence

Arundhati RoyThe End of Imagination

Ashley MartinezHiroshima and Mass Trauma Today: Treating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Individuals and Communities

Atisha Rai, Writings from Under the Mushroom Cloud: Atomic Bomb Literature as a Literature of Atrocity

Baraa Ahmad Aliand Ali Saeed Jassim, History of the impact of radiation on the environment: Hiroshima bomb

Bethany Harris, The Atomic Bomb and the Birth of Manga: Collective Memory in Post-WWII Japan

Brandon Shimodathe Nagasaki and Hiroshima chapters of The Grave on the Wall

Bret Fisk and Cary Karacas, The Firebombing of Tokyo and Its Legacy: Introduction 東京大空襲とその遺したもの−−序論

Camilla SiazonMoving Out from Under Hiroshima’s Cloud: Understanding Nuclear Genocide through Film

Cathy CaruthUnclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History

Charles Abraham, MOVE: Philadelphia's Forgotten Bombing

Claude Eatherly and Gunther AndersBurning Conscience: The case of the Hiroshima pilot, Claude Eatherly, told in his letters to Gunther Anders

Daisuke YuasaHiroshima as a Social Landscape: Bright Peace and Silenced Alternatives

Daniela Tan, Literature and The Trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 文学と広島・長崎のトラウマ

Database of Hibaku Jumoku: Atomic-Bombed Trees of Hiroshima

Dori LaubBearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening; An Event Without a Witness: Truth, Testimony and Survival

Eiji YamamuraAtomic bombs and the long-run effect on trust: Experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Eiko Otake, Sustained Mourning

elin o'Hara slavick, After Hiroshima 広島のあと

elin o’Hara slavick, Hiroshima: A Visual Record

elin o’Hara slavick, Protesting Cartography: Places the United States Has Bombed

Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse

Etel Adnan, Jebu(poem)

Etel Adnan, To Be in a Time of War

Fiona Amundsen, A Drop in the Ocean: Photographic Witnessing and the Fukushima Wastewater Release

Fiona Amundsen, Hopefully the Last City in History

Francesco ComottiThe Magnified Body of Survival Tracing: Communication Paradigms in Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s Storytelling

Garima Malik, The Role of Landscape in Depicting Environmental Impact and Trauma: A Comparative Study of Select Atomic Bomb Poetry and Fiction

Glenn D. Hook, Roots of Nuclearism: Censorship and Reportage of Atomic Damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Günther Anders, Commandments in the Atomic Age

Hachio Noguchi, A Diary of My Atomic Bombing Memories

Hibaku: The Witness Trees of Hiroshima

Hiroko OkudaRemembering the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Collective memory of post-war Japan

Hiro Mitsuo HayashiA Tale of Two Cities: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Literature and Comparisons with Depictions of Post-War Hiroshima

Hiroshi Yoshioka, Hiroshima, Fukushima, and Beyond Borders and Transgressions in Nuclear Imagination

Hong-An Truong and elin o'Hara slavick, War, Memory, the Artist and The Politics of Language 戦争、記憶、芸術家、言語の政治学

Howard Zinn, Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence. Introduction by Yuki Tanaka

Human Rights Watch, Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children

Jacques DerridaNot Now (full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives), translated from the French by Catherine Porter and Philip Lewis

Jalal TouficForthcoming

Jalal TouficThe Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster

James Elkins, On an Image of a Bottle

James Elkins, 瓶のイメージについて(Japanese version of On an Image of a Bottle)

James ThompsonNo More Bystanders: Grandchildren of Hiroshima and the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

Jane OrientFukushima and Reflections on Radiation as a Terror Weapon

Janet Bruin and Stephen Salaff, Never Again: The Organization of WOmen Atomic Bomb Victims in Osaka

John BergerHiroshima

John O’Brian, Nuclear Flowers of Hell

John W. Dower, Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors

John MalikThe Yields of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Explosions

Julian Bonder, On Memory, Trauma, Public Space, Monuments, and Memorials

Junko KayashigeMy Experience of the Atomic Bombing

Karen Barad, After the End of the World: Entangled Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice

Karen J. Coates and Jerry Redfern, Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos

Kason Kendall, Analyzing the Portrayal of the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Textbooks and Non-Profit Curriculum Sources

Keiji Nakazawa,Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Volume One

Kiyomi Kohno, I will never forget that day

Kurt W. TongKorea's forgotten atomic bomb victims

Kyoko Matsunaga, Leslie Marmon Silko and Nuclear Dissent in the American Southwest

Kyoko Selden, Atomic Bomb Poems

La réaction de Albert Camus au bombardement d'Hiroshima

Laurent A Lambert, Ecocide as Genocide: A Human Security Approach to "Utter Annihilation" in Gaza

Lindsay Elizabeth Kosasa, Time, Space, and the Body in Atomic Bomb Literature: A Literary and Choreographic Investigation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Lisa M. Moore, (Re)covering the Past, Remembering Trauma: The Politics of Commemoration at Sites of Atrocity

Madhurima Nargis, Avisuality of Atomic Violence: A Study of Keiji Nakazawa’s I Saw It (1972)

Mahmoud Darwish, Mural (poem). Translated from the Arabic by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché

Marcel JunodThe Hiroshima Disaster

Marguerite Daisy Atterbury, There’s No Space in History: Affiliation, Eros and Colonial Entanglements in North American Nuclear Poetry, 1945-Present

Marguerite DurasHiroshima Mon Amour. Translated from the French by Richard Seaver

Marianne HirschThe Generation of Postmemory

Marilyn McCord AdamsThe Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians

Mary McCarthy, review of John Hersey’s Hiroshima

Masaki Uno, Nakba and Hibaku: Dialogue between Palestine and Hiroshima

Masao TomonagaAfter the atomic bomb: Hibakusha tell their stories

Matthew Day, Reading Atomic Bomb Literature as a Source of Truth

Maurice BlanchotThe Writing of the Disaster, translated from the French by Ann Smock

Maurice HalbwachsHistorical Memory and Collective Memory

Memoirs of Medical Doctors in Hiroshima (excerpts from Hiroshima Ishi no Karute, Hiroshima City Medical Association)

Michael J. HoganThe Enola Gay Controversy: History, Memory, and the Politics of Presentation

Michael R. TaylorGod and the Atom: Salvador Dalí’s Mystical Manifesto and the Contested Origins of Nuclear Painting

Michele MasonWriting Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 21st Century: A New Generation of Historical Manga

Mikihachiro Tatara, The Second Generation of Hibakusha, Atomic Bomb Survivors A Psychologist's View

Nagasaki Prefecture Hibakusha Teachers Association / Peace Education Materials Editorial Committee, In the Sky Over Nagasaki: An A-bomb Reader for Children. Translated from the Japanese by Cheryl Green Lammers Translation Collective

Nanao Kamada, One Day in Hiroshima: An Oral History

Nobuko Margaret KosugePrompt and utter destruction: the Nagasaki disaster and the initial medical relief

Noelle Leslie dela CruzSurviving Hiroshima: An Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa

Norman CousinsHiroshima Maidens

Otto Lenhart, Jonathan Norris, and Thi Tham Ta, The aerial bombing of Cambodia and the recovery of communities

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Voice of the Genocide: A Report on Israel’s Ongoing Genocide on the Gaza Strip, October 2023-January 2025

Paul K. Saint-AmourBombing and the Symptom: Traumatic Earliness and the Nuclear Uncanny

Qiuyang Shen, A Body in Places: Performative Monumentality in Eiko Otake’s Spectral Performance

Rachel Reece, Poems of Hiroshima: Translations of Children's Poems in When I was Small 

Ran Zwigenberg, Beyond the “Empire of Trauma“: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ran Zwigenberg, Nuclear Minds Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Richard Minear, Kurihara Sadako, 1913-2005

Robert Jacobs24 Hours After Hiroshima: National Geographic Channel Takes Up the Bomb

Robert Jacobs, Global Hibakusha

Robert Jacobs, Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War

Robert JacobsRadiation as Cultural Talisman: Nuclear Weapons Testing and American Popular Culture in the Early Cold War

Robert JungkChildren of the Ashes: The People of Hiroshima After the Bomb

Ronald Takaki50 Years After Hiroshima

Ronni AlexanderRemembering Hiroshima: Bio-Politics, Popoki and Sensual Expressions of War

Russell Ciochon, Laos Plain of Jars in the Wake of American Bombing

Sadako Kuriara, Hiroshima: The atomic hecatomb

Sankichi TōgePoems of the Atomic Bomb (Genbaku shishū), translated from the Japanese by Karen Thornber

Soka Gakkai Youth Division, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: That We Never Forget Hibakusha share their testimonies of survivaltranslated from the Japanese by Miwako Sawada, Elizabeth Baldwin and Steven Leeper

Susan LindeeSurvivors and scientists: Hiroshima, Fukushima, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, 1975–2014

Susan SontagThe Imagination of Disaster

Takayuki KawaguchiBarefoot Gen and “A-bomb literature” Re-recollecting the nuclear experience, translated from the Japanese by Nele Noppe

Tamiki HaraNotes of the Atomic Bombing, translated from the Japanese by Tomoko Nakamura

Taro Nettleton, Light, Currency, Spectacle, and War: Kobayashi Erika’s She Waited (2019)

Taylor Channing MolesIn the Shadow of the Bomb: Nagasaki’s Place in Atomic Memory

Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan, Bombs Over Cambodia

Thomas Lamarre, Manga Bomb: between the lines of Barefoot Gen

Tomoe OtsukiGod and the Atomic Bomb: Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Memory and Politics of SacrificeForgiveness, and Reconciliation

Tomoe OtsukiThe Politics of Reconstruction and Reconciliation in U.S-Japan Relations—Dismantling the Atomic Bomb Ruins of Nagasaki’s Urakami Cathedral

Voices of Hibakusha in Nara, Japan. Edited by Masanao Iritani. Translated from the Japanese by Masaaki Nimonji and Dan Carey

Ward Churchill, A Breach of Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North America

William GamsonHiroshima, The Holocaust, and the Politics of Exclusion

William J. Blot and Hisao SawadaFertility among Female Survivors of the Atomic Bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Yasumi Yoshitomi, A Memoir of my Atomic Bombing Experience

Yuki TanakaPhotographer Fukushima Kikujiro: Confronting Images of Atomic Bomb Survivo