Introduction to Poetry

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Click here to view some background resources on the city of Hiroshima and the events of August 1945


http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/

This archive is a maintained at the University of Lewis and Clark in the US and contains a variety of information stored in different forms. A good starting point.
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/index-E.html
This is the official website of the modern city of Hiroshima which contains a lot of information about the bombing of the city and its aftermath as well as information about the city as it is today.
http://www.doug-long.com/
An archival of materials which looks at the justification for the dropping of the bomb and the moral case for and against.
The book Hiroshima by John Hersey remains the classic account of the city in the direct aftermath of the dropping of the bomb. First published as a major article in the New Yorker magazine in 1946, it was quickly published in book form and has remained in print ever since despite the harrowing descriptions it contains.