Problem: What is the overall tone of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey report? How did the Truman administration justify the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan? How does this report compare to Yamaoka Michiko's account of the effects of the atomic bomb? Years after the dropping of the two atomic bombs, was it true that "there are no indications that radioactivity continued after the explosion to a sufficient degree to harm human beings"? Why is this an important question to ask? What do you know about nuclear weapons and nuclear power today? Does reading these texts change where you stand on this issue today? Why/not?