Living with the bomb : American and Japanese cultural conflicts in the nuclear age
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Living with the bomb : American and Japanese cultural conflicts in the nuclear age
（Japan in the modern world）（An East gate book）
Routledge, 2015, c1997
- : pbk
- : hardback
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Fisrt published: M.E. Sharpe, 1997
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.
Table of Contents
- I: Introduction
- 1: Commemoration and Silence
- II: Commemoration and Censorship
- 2: Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia
- 3: Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki
- 4: Making Things Visible
- 5: Commemoration Controversies
- 6: Mass Death in Miniature
- 7: Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline
- III: Contending Constituencies
- 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 9: The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches
- 10: Memory Matters
- 11: Were We the Enemy?
- 12: Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory
- IV: Afterword
- 13: Learning about Patriotism, Decency, and the Bomb
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