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Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (1965)

_________________, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (1995).

Barton J. Bernstein, ed., The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues (1976); see also, Bernstein’s many articles on the decision to use the bomb, including especially "The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered," Foreign Affairs 176 (Jan./Feb. 1995), 135-52.

Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifshultz (eds.), Hiroshima’s Shadow (1990).

The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (April-June, 1995).

Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1985)

Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings, translated by Ishikawa Eisei and David L. Swain (1981).

John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)

Herbert Feis, The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (1966)

Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays (1988).

Alonzo Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995).

Martin Harwitt, An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay (1997).

Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6- September 30, 1945 (1955).

Gregg Herken, The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War (1981)

James Hersberg, James B. Connant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age (1993).

John Hersey, Hiroshima (1946)

Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar G. Anderson, The New World, 1939-1946: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (1962)

Michael J. Hogan, (ed.), Diplomatic History (1995). A somewhat differeent version of this special issue was published as Hiroshima in History and Memory (1996).

David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (1994).

Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain (1969)

Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic bomb Survivors (1977).

Robert Jay Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967).

Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Englehardt (eds.), History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (1996).

Richard H. Minear, "Atomic Holocaust, Nazi Holocaust: Some Reflections," Diplomatic History (Spring, 1995).

_______________, (ed. and trans.), Hiroshima: Three Witnesses (1990).

Robert P. Newman, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult (August 1995).

Paul H. Nitze, with Ann M. Smith and Steven L. Rearden, From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision-Making -- A Memoir (1989).

Philip Nobile et al. (eds.), Judgement at the Smithsonian (1995).

Arata Osada, (comp), Children of Hiroshima (1980).

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)

Lisle A. Rose, Dubious Victory: The United States and the End of World War II (1973)

Kyoko and Mark Selden (eds.), The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1989)

Martin Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (1987).

Martin J. Sherwin, A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (1975)

Leon V. Sigal, Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945 (1988).

John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb (1994).

Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (1984).

Ronald Takaki, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (1995).

J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: President Truman and the Use of Atomic bombs Against Japan (1997).

Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (1988)

Peter Wyden, Day One: Before Hiroshima and After (1985)