| Description |
xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hiroshima in history and memory : an introduction / Michael J. Hogan -- Decision to use the bomb : a historiographical update / J. Samuel Walker -- Understanding the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender : missed opportunities, little-known near disasters, and modern memory / Barton J. Bernstein -- Japan's delayed surrender : a reinterpretation / Herbert P. Bix -- Bombed : Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory / John W. Dower -- Exotic resonances : Hiroshima in American memory / Paul Boyer -- Quest for a peace culture : the a-bomb survivors' long struggle and the new movement for redressing foreign victims of Japan's war / Seiitsu Tachibana -- History, collective memory, and the decision to use the bomb / J. Samuel Walker -- Enola Gay controversy : history, memory, and the politics of presentation / Michael J. Hogan. |
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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United States -- Military policy -- Decision making.
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Atomic bomb victims -- Japan.
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| Added Author |
Hogan, Michael J., 1943-
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| ISBN |
0521562066 hardcover |
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9780521562065 hardcover |
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0521566827 pb |
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9780521566827 pb |
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