Politics: Hiroshima Documents Posted Online

On the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the National Security Archive publishes the most comprehensive on-line collection to date of declassified U.S. government documents on the first use of the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.

Comprehensive Collection Includes "Ultra Secret" Comint, Truman Meetings,First-ever English Language Publication of Japanese Sources on End of War

Besides material from the files of the Manhattan Project and senior officials, this posting includes formerly top secret "Magic" summaries and translations of intercepted Japanese diplomatic cable traffic.

It also publishes for the first time anywhere complete translations from the Japanese of accounts of key highlevel meetings and discussions in Tokyo leading to the end of the war.