The age of Hiroshima

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1. Introduction: Hiroshima's Legacies / Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry -- Part I. Decisions and choices -- 2. The atom bomb as policy maker: FDR and the road not taken / Campbell Craig -- 3. . The Kyoto misconception: what Truman knew, and didn't know, about Hiroshima / Alex Wellerstein -- 4. "When you have to deal with a beast": Race, ideology, and the decision to use the atomic bomb / Sean L. Malloy -- 5. Racing toward Armageddon? Soviet views of Strategic Nuclear War, 1955-1972 / David Holloway -- 6. The evolution of Japanese politics and diplomacy under the long shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1974-1991 / Takuya Sasaki -- Part II. Movements and resistances -- 7. The Bandung Conference and the origins of Japan's Atoms for Peace Aid Program for Asian Countries / Shinsuke Tomotsugu -- 8. India in the early nuclear age -- 9. The unnecessary option to go nuclear: Japan's nonnuclear policy in an era of uncertainty, 1950s-1960s / Wakana Mukai -- 10. Nuclear revolution and hegemonic hierarchies: How global Hiroshima played out in South America / Matias Spektor -- 11. Remembering war, forgetting Hiroshima: "Euroshima" and the West German anti-nuclear weapons movements in the Cold War / Holger Nehring -- 12. Hiroshima, Nonjing, and Yasukuni: Contending discourses on the Second World War in Japan / Kiichi Fujiwara -- Part III. Revolutions and transformations -- 13. The end of the beginning: China and the consolidation of the nuclear revolution / Avery Goldstein -- 14. Data, discourse, and disruption: radiation effects and nuclear orders / Sonja D. Schmid -- 15. Nuclear harms and global disarmament / Shampa Biswas -- 16. The legacy of the nuclear taboo in the twenty-first century / Nina Tannenwald -- 17. History and the unanswered questions of the nuclear age: reflections on assumptions, uncertainty, and method in nuclear studies / Francis J. Gavin.
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.

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