Jeremi and Zachary host a panel of historians Don Carleton, Michael Stoff, and Ben Wright, to discuss the lasting effects of the United States' atomic bombings on Japan in WWII.

Michael Stoff is Associate Professor of History and UT Regents and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Oil, War and American Security, co-editor of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, series co-editor of The Oxford New Narratives in American History, and co-author of five American history textbooks. He has lectured widely about American political culture and US foreign policy, the presidency, the Second World War, and the atomic bomb. He is currently at work on a book about the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Ben Wright is a curator and researcher at the Briscoe Center. Previously he worked as a journalist and then as a press secretary at the Texas state capitol. He has a Master’s Degree in Modern History from King’s College London and is pursuing his PhD in the history department here at UT. Originally from Leicester, England, he has been in Texas since 2003.

These three authors are co-editors of an important new book, Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You can read a preview of the book in the New York Times.