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Title Hiroshima-75 : nuclear issues in global contexts / Aya Fujiwara ; David. R. Marples (eds.)
Published Stuttgart : Ibidem Press, 2020

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Contents Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. New Analyses of American Views on the Dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- ENCOUNTERING THE ATOMIC BOMB: THE US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI -- HOW TO CELEBRATE THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB: TRUMAN'S STATEMENT AFTER HIROSHIMA -- 2. Control or Not? Thinking on Atomic Power in the Cold War Context -- EARLY BRITISH THINKING ON ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL -- SOVIET ATOMIC INTERNATIONALISM, EGYPT, AND THE SOFT POWER OF SCIENCE
WHAT MADE JAPAN RELY ON ATOMIC ENERGY FOR ITS POWER NEEDS? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE EARLY COLD WAR -- 3. Atomic Bombs and Cultural Representation in the World -- JAPAN'S COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF HIROSHIMA SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD: THE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT OF "BAREFOOT GEN" -- NUCLEAR NOIR: KISS ME DEADLY AND POSTWAR ANXIETY IN AMERICA -- "HIROSHIMA" IN FRANCE: FORGETTING "HIROSHIMA" TO ACCEPT FRENCH ULTRA-MODERNITY AND ITS NUCLEAR POLICIES. -- 4. Memoirs and Medicine: Japan, Ukraine, USA -- MY PATH FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOUSTON
"ATOMIC SOLDIERS AND DOWNWINDERS": HEALTH LEGACIES OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE -- CHERNOBYL AND ITS LEGACY: A MEMOIR -- 5. Thinking on Nuclear Proficiency and Disarmament in the Current World -- NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND DOUBLE STANDARDS -- UKRAINE'S NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, 1990-2015: OVERVIEW AND HISTORIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS
Summary 75 years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of international scholars offers new perspectives on this event and the history, development, and portrayal of the utilization of atomic energy in military and civilian industries, civil nuclear power, literature and film, and the contemporary world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February. 06, 2020)
Subject Nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear industry.
Nuclear energy.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
World politics.
Nuclear Energy
nuclear power.
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear energy
Nuclear industry
Nuclear nonproliferation
World politics
SUBJECT Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
Subject Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fujiwara, Aya, 1971- editor.
Marples, David R., editor.
ISBN 9783838273983
3838273982