The age of Hiroshima /
A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also sh...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Hiroshima's Legacies Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry
- PART I. DECISIONS AND CHOICES
- 2 The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker: FDR and the Road Not Taken Campbell Craig
- 3 The Kyoto Misconception: What Truman Knew, and Didn't Know, about Hiroshima Alex Wellerstein
- 4 "When You Have to Deal with a Beast": Race, Ideology, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Sean L. Malloy
- 5 Racing toward Armageddon? Soviet Views of Strategic Nuclear War, 1955-1972 David Holloway
- Part I. Decisions and choices
- part II. Movements and resistances
- part III. Revolutions and transformations
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Hiroshima's Legacies
- 2. The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker: FDR and the Road Not Taken
- 3. The Kyoto Misconception: What Truman Knew, and Didn't Know, about Hiroshima
- 4. "When You Have to Deal with a Beast": Race, Ideology, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
- 5. Racing toward Armageddon? Soviet Views of Strategic Nuclear War, 1955-1972
- 6. The Evolution of Japanese Politics and Diplomacy under the Long Shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1974-1991
- 7. The Bandung Conference and the Origins of Japan's Atoms for Peace Aid Program for Asian Countries
- 8. India in the Early Nuclear Age
- 9. The Unnecessary Option to Go Nuclear: Japan's Nonnuclear Policy in an Era of Uncertainty, 1950s-1960s
- 10. Nuclear Revolution and Hegemonic Hierarchies: How Global Hiroshima Played Out in South America
- 11. Remembering War, Forgetting Hiroshima: "Euroshima" and the West German Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movements in the Cold Wa
- 12. Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan
- 13. The End of the Beginning: China and the Consolidation of the Nuclear Revolution
- 14. Data, Discourse, and Disruption: Radiation Effects and Nuclear Orders
- 15. Nuclear Harms and Global Disarmament
- 16. The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo in the Twenty-First Century
- 17. History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age: Reflections on Assumptions, Uncertainty, and Method in Nuclear Studies
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
- 11 Remembering War, Forgetting Hiroshima: "Euroshima" and the West German Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movements in the Cold War H
- 12 Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan Kiichi Fujiwara
- PART III. REVOLUTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
- 13 The End of the Beginning: China and the Consolidation of the Nuclear Revolution Avery Goldstein
- 14 Data, Discourse, and Disruption: Radiation Effects and Nuclear Orders Sonja D. Schmid
- 15 Nuclear Harms and Global Disarmament Shampa Biswas
- 16 The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo in the Twenty First Century Nina Tannenwald
- 17 History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age: Reflections on Assumptions, Uncertainty, and Method in Nuclear Studies Francis J. Gavin
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
- 6 The Evolution of Japanese Politics and Diplomacy under the Long Shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1974-1991 Takuya Sasaki
- PART II. MOVEMENTS AND RESISTANCES
- 7 The Bandung Conference and the Origins of Japan's Atoms for Peace Aid Program for Asian Countries Shinsuke Tomotsugu
- 8 India in the Early Nuclear Age Srinath Raghavan
- 9 The Unnecessary Option to Go Nuclear: Japan's Nonnuclear Policy in an Era of Uncertainty, 1950s-1960s Wakana Mukai
- 10 Nuclear Revolution and Hegemonic Hierarchies: How Global Hiroshima Played Out in South America Matias Spektor