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Author | : John Hersey |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0593082362 |
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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 | : Michael J. Hogan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521566827 |
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This collection of essays surveys the Hiroshima story.
Author | : Lesley M.M. Blume |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982128550 |
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked—until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret—even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved—and can still save—the world.
Author | : Ronald Takaki |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780316831246 |
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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 | : Atsuko Shigesawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9783838273983 |
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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.
Author | : Adrian Weale |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786702169 |
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August 1995 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. This new volume in the Eyewitness Series reconstructs how pre-war scientists laid the bomb's theoretical foundations, provides the details of the Manhattan Project, and bears witness to the Japanese experience of the bombings and their legacy. Media attention.
Author | : Richard Tames |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781403491497 |
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Provides answers to such questions as "Why was Japan the first target for an atomic bomb?", "In what way was this more devastating than an ordinary bomb?", and "Did the use of atomic bombs bring an early end to World War II?"
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Tangled History |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1543575560 |
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"In narrative nonfiction format, follows the people who experienced the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Michael D. Gordin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691193452 |
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A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On 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.
Author | : Paul Ham |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466847476 |
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly by the atomic bombs, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet American leaders claimed the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice"—and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives. In this gripping narrative, Ham demonstrates convincingly that misunderstandings and nationalist fury on both sides led to the use of the bombs. Ham also gives powerful witness to its destruction through the eyes of eighty survivors, from twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to wives and children who faced the holocaust alone. Hiroshima Nagasaki presents the grisly unadorned truth about the bombings, blurred for so long by postwar propaganda, and transforms our understanding of one of the defining events of the twentieth century.