The Age of Hiroshima / / ed. by Michael D. Gordin, G. John Ikenberry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Biswas, Shampa,; Craig, Campbell,; Fujiwara, Kiichi,; Gavin, Francis J.,; Goldstein, Avery,; Gordin, Michael D.,; Holloway, David,; Ikenberry, G. John,; Malloy, Sean L.,; Mukai, Wakana,; Nehring, Holger,; Raghavan, Srinath,; Sasaki, Takuya,; Schmid, Sonja D.,; Spektor, Matias,; Tannenwald, Nina,; Tomotsugu, Shinsuke,; Wellerstein, Alex,
• TeilnehmendeR: Biswas, Shampa.; Craig, Campbell.; Fujiwara, Kiichi.; Gavin, Francis.; Goldstein, Avery.; Holloway, David.; Malloy, Sean L.; Mukai, Wakana.; Nehring, Holger.; Raghavan, Srinath.; Sasaki, Takuya.; Schmid, Sonja D.; Spektor, Matias.; Tannenwald, Nina.; Tomotsugu, Shinsuke.; Wellerstein, Alex.
• HerausgeberIn: Gordin, Michael D.,; Ikenberry, G. John,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 2 b/w illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Hiroshima's Legacies
• Part I. Decisions and Choices
• 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
• Part II. Movements and Resistances
• 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
• Part III. Revolutions and Transformations
• 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