☰Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

Southard spent two decades interviewing five hibakusha — survivors of the Nagasaki bombing — and weaves their stories into the broader history of the city, the bomb, the censored American occupation, and the long medical aftermath. The book won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize in 2016 and is the most accessible single-volume account of what happened in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 and after. It is also a quietly furious response to the way the Pacific war's nuclear end is told in the US.