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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biswas, Shampa.

Craig, Campbell.

Fujiwara, Sosui.

Gavin, Francis

Goldstein, Avery

Gordin, Michael D., Editor.

Holloway, David, 1943-

Ikenberry, G. John, Editor.

Malloy, Sean L.

Mukai, Wakana.

Nehring, Holger

Raghavan, Srinath.

Sasaki, Takuya

Schmid, Sonja D.

Spektor, Matias

Tannenwald, Nina.

Tomotsugu, Shinsuke.

Wellerstein, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--History--20th century.

Atomic bomb.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

United States.

Japan.

Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world.Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination-the end of one age and the dawn of another.The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-691-19529-3

OCLC:

1132418912