This voluminous collection, originally published in Japanese in 1979, was compiled by the Japanese “Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki” the English translation is by Eisei Ishikawa and David L. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings (Basic Books, 1981). The most famous English-language account of atomic-īomb survivors, originally published in New Yorker magazine and frequently reprinted as a short book. Concise overviews of the effects of the bombs in a standard reference source. General Sources on the Effects of the Bombs “Atomic bomb” and “Atomic bomb-related disease,” in Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, (Kodansha, 1993), vol.
