Jasper's List o' Links

Some favorite literature

The High Energy Weapons Archive in Finland has lots of nuclear weapons related stuff: bomb plans, comprehensive lists of facilities and tests, graphical archives, and eyewitness accounts.
Atomic Bomb Information. Significant excerpts from the High Energy Weapons Archive. "No preaching", just "facts so you may form your own informed opinions."
The Leo Szilard Home Page has documents from the debate in the Manhattan Project about if (and where) to use the atomic bomb. The Franck Report is particularly relevant to the current problem(?) of nuclear proliferation.
Doug Long's article, Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? is a very cogent argument that America need not have dropped the bomb.
The firebombing of Kobe and Osaka describes the effects of conventional bombing and blockade.
The shorter version of the firebombing of Kobe and Osaka focuses just on the bombing.
A history of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, used in the firebombings of Japan and Europe.

Jerry Yellin "was a P-51 pilot over Japan on the day the bomb was dropped. My hatred for the Japanese continued until 1988 when my youngest son married a Japanese woman. Today I have 2 grandsons living in Japan." He has written Of War and Weddings, A Legacy of Two Fathers.
Jasper's Origami Menagerie highlights the collaboration between paperfolders of all nations.
A teacher placement service named "Safe Jobs in Japan"
maintains information about current living conditions in Japan,
especially for "aliens".

Last updated December 2, 2001.