Gordon Thomas: Enola Gay

Tully, Grace. F.D.R., My Boss. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949.

Wilson, Jane, ed. All in Our Time. Chicago: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 1975.

Zacharias, Ellis M. Secret Missions. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1946.

Individual items, too numerous to mention, many recently declassified, may be found at:

American National Red Cross, Washington: Tinian, medical and social.

Atomic Energy Commission, Historical Office, Washington: Oppenheimer, Research and Development, etc.

Historical Office, State Department, Bureau of Public Affairs, Washington: Interim Committee, etc.

Japanese Defense Agency, Historical Section, Tokyo: General and Specific Naval and Army Activities During World War II.

National Archives, Washington: Record Group No. 77: MED Top Secret Files, MED H&B Files, Top Secret Files of Special Interest to General Groves; Record Group No. 165: OPD Project Decimal Files, OPD Olympic; U.S. Strategic Bombing Surveys, etc.

Naval Historical Center, Washington: Tinian NAB, USS Indianapolis , Oral Interviews, etc.

Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB: Record Groups: GP-509-SU, HI, RE (Comp), HI (Comp), OP-5, Oral Interviews.

B-29 Flight Manual (Familiarization File, USAAF).

Dull, Paul S., and Umemura, Michael T. The Tokyo Trials. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957.

Franck, James. Report of the Committee on Social and Political Implications. June, 1945 (“The Franck Report”; complete text in A Peril and a Hope ).

History of the 509th Composite Group, 313 Bombardment Wing, Twentieth Air Force—Activation to 15 August, 1945. Official Historian, Tinian, August 31, 1945.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East (National Archives, esp. vols. 60, 61, 64, 65, 74).

Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference, July 6, 1945, to August 7, 1945. Written and compiled by William M. Rigdon, USN, 1946, with a foreword by Lieutenant George M. Elsey, USNR.

Manhattan Engineer District. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Washington, 1957.

Ossip, Jerome J., ed. 509th Pictorial Album, Tinian, 1945.

Report of the British Mission to Japan. The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London: H.M.S.O., 1946.

Short History of the 509th Group. Roswell, 1947.

Smyth, H. D. A General Account of the Development of the Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940–1945. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.

U.S. Army Air Forces. Mission Accomplished. (Interrogation of Japanese Industrial, Military and Civil Leaders of WW II). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.

U.S. Strategic Bombing Surveys: Interrogations; The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japan’s War Economy; Japan’s Struggle to End the War; The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale; Effects of Air Attack on the City of Hiroshima; Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. All published by Government Printing Office, Washington, 1945–47.

Araki, Takeshi (Foreword). Hiroshima. Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, 1975.

Bainbridge, Kenneth T. “Prelude to Trinity.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , vol. 31. no. 4, April 1975; “A Foul and Awesome Display,” vol. 31, no. 5, May 1975.

Batchelor, John, ed. Battle of the Pacific. London: Purnell, 1975.

Bishop, John. “The Trick That Was a Steppingstone to Japan.” Saturday Evening Post , December 23, 1944.

Caron, George R. “Mission Destruction.” Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine , November 1959.

Compton, Karl T. “If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used.” Atlantic Monthly , December 1946.

“Fifteen Years Later—The Men Who Bombed Hiroshima.” Coronet , vol. 48, no. 4, August 1960.

Frisch, David H. “Scientists and the Decision to Bomb Japan.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , vol. 26, June 1970.

Groves, Leslie R. “Some Recollections of July 16, 1945.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , vol. 26, 1970.

Hersey, John. “Hiroshima.” The New Yorker , August 31, 1946.

Kosakai, Yoshiteru (compiler). A-Bomb: A City Tells Its Story. Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, 1972.

Laurence, William L. “The Story of the Atomic Bomb.” The New York Times , 1946.

Leighton, Alexander H. “That Day at Hiroshima.” Atlantic Monthly , October 1946.

Lewis, Robert A. “How We Dropped the Bomb.” Popular Science , vol. 171, no. 2, August 1957.

Penney, William; Samuels, D. E. J.; and Scorgie, G. C. “The Nuclear Yields at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , vol. 266, no. 1177, June 11, 1970.

“Memories of Hiroshima.” People , vol. 4, no. 6, August 11, 1975.

Ransom, Jay Ellis. “Wendover, Home of the Atom Bomb.” Code 41 , November 1973.

Schwartz, Robert L. “Atomic Bomb Away.” Yank , September 7, 1945; “The Week the War Ended.” Life , July 17, 1950.

Siemes, P. T. “The Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima.” Irish Monthly , March–April 1946.

Small, Collie. “The Biggest Blast.” Collier’s , August 13, 1949.

Smith, Alice Kimball. “Los Alamos: Focus of an Age.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , vol. 26, June 1970.

Steiner, Arthur. “Baptism of the Atomic Scientists.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , vol. 31, no. 2, February 1945.

Stimson, Henry L. “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” Harper’s Magazine , vol. 194, no. 1161, February 1947.

Tibbets, Paul W. “Ten P.M. August 5—and After.” Survey Graphic , vol. 35, January 1946; “How to Drop an Atom Bomb.” Saturday Evening Post , June 8, 1946 (with Wesley Price); “Training the 509th for Hiroshima.” Air Force Magazine , August 1973.

“The Unmentioned Victims.” Time , August 9, 1971.

“Time Out. Prayer or Curse?” (Downey’s prayer.) Luther League of America, Philadelphia, vol. 1, no. 4, April 1961.

“Was A-Bomb on Japan a Mistake?” U.S. News & World Report , vol. 49, August 15, 1960.

The following were most useful:

Asahi Shimbun, Chicago Tribune, Chugoku Shimbun, Los Angeles Times, Mainichi Shimbun, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Times of London, Washington Post, Japan Times and Advertiser , and the July and August 1945 editions of the Daily Mission , published by the 313th Bombardment Wing Information Office, Tinian, Marianas.

Tsunesaburo Asada

Jacob Beser

George Caron

Shin Endo

Russell Gackenbach

Leslie Groves

Kanai Hiroto

Kumao Imoto

Robert Lewis

Kazumasa Maruyama

Masaru Matsuoka

Richard Nelson

Kakuzo Oya

Charles Perry

Abe Spitzer

Henry L. Stimson

Paul Tibbets

Harry S. Truman

Theodore van Kirk

Tatsuo Yokoyama

Official interviews conducted by A. B. Christman, NOTS, China Lake:

Vice Admiral F. L. Ashworth, April 1969.

Dr. A. Francis Birch, February 1971.

Mrs. Robert Burroughs (formerly Mrs. W. S. Parsons), April 1966.

Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves, May 1967.

Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, May 1966.

Others: