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Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Argues that information and debate about President Truman's decision to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed in order to prevent criticism of America.
Author : John Hersey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0593082362
Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316831246
The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved. At the time, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and chief of staff Admiral William Leahy all agreed that an atomic attack on Japanese cities was unnecessary. All of them believed that Japan had already been beaten and that the war would soon end. Was the bomb dropped to end the war more quickly? Or did it herald the start of the Cold War? In his probing new study, prizewinning historian Ronald Takaki explores these factors and more. He considers the cultural context of race - the ways in which stereotypes of the Japanese influenced public opinion and policymakers - and also probes the human dimension. Relying on top secret military reports, diaries, and personal letters, Takaki relates international policies to the individuals involved: Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and others... but above all, Harry Truman.
Author : Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1996-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521566827
This collection of essays surveys the Hiroshima story.
Author : Naoko Wake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1108835279
The little-known history of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings reveals captivating trans-Pacific memories of war, illness, gender, and community.
Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0231528396
The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. The Columbia Guide to the Cold War is the first in a series of guides to American history and culture that will offer a wealth of interpretive information in different formats to students, scholars, and general readers alike. This reference contains narrative essays on key events and issues, and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia, a concise chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War themes.
Author : Rinjiro Sodei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429982771
In August 1945, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is hardly known is that 4,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans), the sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who had been sent back to Japan to be educated before World War II erupted, were caught in the Hiroshima bombing. This extraordinary book commemorates the 3,000 Nisei who died from the atomic blast in Hiroshima and documents the plight of another 1,000 hibakusha (survivors of the bomb) who returned to the West Coast after the war.Branded as ?foreigners? in wartime Japan and as ?enemies? in postwar United States, their existence as victims of the atomic blast has not been recognized by either the Japanese or the U.S. government, both of which have refused to alleviate the medical and political problems of the survivors. Drawing on primary sources and rich interview data, Rinjiro Sodei has contributed an original scholarly work to the literature on World War II and the Asian-American experience. This book bears witness to the human calamities of the nuclear age and to the dignity of these Japanese Americans striving to obtain their rights and sustain their bicultural identity.
Author : Hugh Cort
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1462067328
Did You Know Iran is Planning a Nuclear Attack on America? Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad have a fanatical religious belief that they can usher in the coming of their messiah, the "12th Imam", or "Mahdi", by killing millions of Americans and Israelis ("infidels") with nuclear bombs. Ahmadinejad has said this will happen very soon, and Iran has made a film about this, "The Coming (of the Mahdi) is Upon Us". They are like suicide bombers, and do not fear death or retaliation. They are going to detonate nuclear bombs in multiple American cities, bombs that have been smuggled through the Mexican border into America, and they will try to blame it on al Qaeda. Iran was assisting Osama bin Laden with his American Hiroshima plan, and now Iran has taken over the plan. Iran already has nuclear bombs acquired from several sources, and is soon, in the next few months, to also produce their own nuclear bombs at the formerly secret site at Fordo, near the Holy City of Qom, and also will very soon have nuclear tipped missiles. To learn more about Iran's plans for attack, and how you can prevent you and your family from getting fatal radiation sickness when the bombs go off, read this book, and also see our website, www.AFCPR.org. Also google "Iran's Mystery Flight to Venezuela/Fox News Video" and "Threat of Iran's Nuclear Ambitions/Fox News Video".
Author : Laura Hein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1997-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765631640
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.
Author : Kenneth B. Pyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1009477471
The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important – and perhaps most controversial - event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many of the major developments of our time: the end of World War II, the beginning of the atomic age, the establishment of the American world order, and the start of the Cold War arms race. Kenneth B. Pyle illuminates both the complexities of the event itself and the debates among historians that continue today, as they wrestle with the moral issues of the decision, its necessity and its alternatives. While producing no final resolution to the controversy, historians have nevertheless advanced and deepened our understanding of this event. This accessible and thought-provoking analysis is a case study in the intricate nature of the historian's craft and a reminder of the value of historians in a free society.