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READINGS

**For 1st Paper Assignment: 

• Thank God for the Atomic Bomb
• Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror
• Media to Smithsonian: History is Bunk
• Government documents
• Basic Information on the Bomb
• Second Guessing Hiroshima
• Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?
• A Petition to the President of the United States
• The Decision That Launched the Enola Gay
• Diary Shows Tojo Resisted Surrender Till End
• The Day Hiroshima turned into Hell
• NOTE: Be sure to watch the following video clip Truman and the Bomb (23:15) for the 1^st Paper Assignment as well

• Excerpts from Stalin by Hiroaki Kuromiya
• Speech by Soviet leader Andrei Zhdanov
• The Truman Doctrine
• Excerpts from Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, ed. by Dale Herspring
• Is Vladimir Putin Insane? Hardly? by Masha Gessen (L. A. Times Op Ed, 3-11-2014)

• Russia Is Finished by Jeffrey Tayler in The Atlantic Monthly, May 2001
• Don't Count Russia Out: A Reply to Jeffrey Tayler by W. George Krasnow

Material on the Wars in Yugoslavia:

• Book Review of The Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War by Susan Woodward
• America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims
• Diary of an Uncivil war by Scott Taylor

• Time's Man of the Year for 1930: Mohandas K. Gandhi

• Who are India's Untouchables? by Tom O'Neill and Heidi Schultz in National Geographic
• Excerpts from Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
• Excerpts from Mahatma Gandhi: All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections compiled and edited by Krishna Kripalani
• Passive Resistance from Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule by M. K. Gandhi

Material on the War in Afghanistan:

• A Dossier on Civilian Victims of  United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan
• Forgotten Coverage of Afghan 'Freedom Fighters' by David N. Gibbs

• Lei Feng, Chairman Mao's Good Little Fighter
• Excerpts from Father is Close, Mother is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao from Wild Swans by Jung Chang;

• Material on Vietnam
• Excerpt from When Heaven and Earth Change Places by Le Ly Hayslip

• Excerpts from the 9/11 National Commission Report on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Chapters 7 & 10)

• In Search of Fatima by Ghada Karmi: Review by Natalie Bennett
• Excerpts from In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi:
• Part A
• Part B

Material on the Arab-Israeli Conflict:

• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Frequently Asked Questions
• Israeli Authorities Demolish Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem
• Emerging alternatives in Palestine by Dr. Edward Said
• Jerusalem: Facts & Figures from the Palestinian National Authority
• The Myth of the Generous Offer from FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)

• Excerpt from Eye of the Family by V. Harden

•  Short stories City Lovers and Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer 

• Washington Post commentary Argentina's Crisis, IMF's Fingerprints by Mark Weisbrot

• Excerpts from Child of the Dark by Maria de Jesus

• The Causes of Hunger