After Hiroshima : the United States, race and nuclear weapons in Asia, 1945-1965
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After Hiroshima : the United States, race and nuclear weapons in Asia, 1945-1965
Cambridge University Press, 2012, c2010
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-489) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By emphasising the role of nuclear issues, After Hiroshima, published in 2010, provides an original history of American policy in Asia between the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, Matthew Jones charts the development of American nuclear strategy and the foreign policy problems it raised, as the United States both confronted China and attempted to win the friendship of an Asia emerging from colonial domination. In underlining American perceptions that Asian peoples saw the possible repeat use of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of Western attitudes of 'white superiority', he offers new insights into the links between racial sensitivities and the conduct of US policy, and a fresh interpretation of the transition in American strategy from massive retaliation to flexible response in the era spanned by the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. In the shadow of Hiroshima: the United States and Asia in the aftermath of Japanese defeat
- 2. The Korean War, the atomic bomb, and Asian-American estrangement
- 3. Securing the East Asian frontier: stalemate in Korea and the Japanese peace treaty
- 4. A greater sanction: the defence of South East Asia, the advent of the Eisenhower administration and the end of the Korean War
- 5. 'Atomic madness': massive retaliation and the Bravo test
- 6. The aftermath of Bravo, the Indochina crisis, and the emergence of SEATO
- 7. 'Asia for the Asians': the first Offshore Islands crisis and the Bandung Conference
- 8. A nuclear strategy for SEATO and the problem of limited war in the Far East
- 9. Massive retaliation at bay: US-Japanese relations, nuclear deployment, and the limited war debate
- 10. The second Offshore Islands crisis and the advent of flexible response
- 11. The Chinese bomb, American nuclear strategy in Asia, and the escalation of the Vietnam War
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
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