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The age of Hiroshima /
On 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 shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 11. Remembering war, forgetting Hiroshima: "Euroshima" and the West German anti-nuclear weapons movements in the Cold War / Holger Nehring
- 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.