1/ There are many great threads and essays commemorating the 75th anniversary of the #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki atomic bombings this week. Here are a few I found interesting—

2/ @chxdxehl has written a new book on the bombing of Nagasaki and its long aftermath. He also has a short thread on a survivor who witnessed both bombings. Both are worth checking out. https://twitter.com/chxdxehl/status/1291380728379453445

3/ Many Americans cheered after the bombings suddenly ended the war. Other Americans—especially African Americans including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Huston, and W.E.B. DuBois—decried state-backed cruelty and the racist foundations of nuclear weapons. https://bostonreview.net/war-security-global-justice/elaine-scarry-racist-foundation-nuclear-architecture

4/ This excellent thread from last year recounts why Nagasaki was targeted and how Truman had to wrestle authority over the bombs from military and civilian agencies. It is an unnerving history of how bureaucracy and contingency created potentially unnecessary destruction. https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1159799358650499072