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Hiroshima - hĭrˌōshēˈmə, hērōˈshmä, city (1990 pop. 1,085,705), capital of Hiroshima prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on Hiroshima Bay. It is an important commercial and industrial center manufacturing trucks, ships, automobiles, steel, rubber, furniture, and canned foods. The city is also a market for agricultural and marine

15 of the Best Books and Articles on: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb » Read Now
by Dennis D. Wainstock. 184 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book is a balanced account of the political, diplomatic, and military currents that influenced Japan's attempts to surrender and the United States's decision to drop the atomic bombs. Based on extensive research in both the United States and Japan, this book allows the reader to follow the...
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This book is a balanced account of the political, diplomatic, and military currents that influenced Japan's attempts to surrender and the United States's decision to drop the atomic bombs. Based on extensive research in both the United States and Japan, this book allows the reader to follow the parallel decision-making in Tokyo and Washington that contributed to lost opportunities that might have allowed a less brutal conclusion to the war. Topics discussed and analyzed include Japan's desperate military situation; its decision to look to the Soviet Union to mediate the conflict; the Manhattan Project; the debates within Truman's Administration and the armed forces as to whether to modify unconditional surrender terms to include retention of Emperor Hirohito and whether to plan for the invasion of Japan's home islands or to rely instead on blockade and bombing to force the surrender.
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki: One Necessary Evil, One Tragic Mistake, in Commonweal » Read Now
by Bruce Loebs. 8 pgs.

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...Hiroshima Nagasaki: one necessary evil, one tragic...Americas use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki fifty years ago unleashed a debate...abhorrent choice. The...
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Hiroshima: Historians Reassess, in Foreign Policy » Read Now
by Gar Alperovitz. 20 pgs.

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...necessity of bombing Hiroshima was "debatable," and the bombing of Nagasaki was "unnecessary...the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had the United States...barbarous...
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The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki » Read Now
by Mark Selden, Kyoko Selden. 257 pgs.

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...ATOMIC BOMB Voices from HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI Editors: Kyoko Mark...The Atomic bomb:voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki/editors, Kyoko and Mark...Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima...
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima » Read Now
by Robert Jay Lifton. 600 pgs.

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...for a selection from Hiroshima Diary by Michihiko Hachiya...selection from We of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai. Copyright...assault himself. But with Hiroshima and her...
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Were We the Enemy? American Survivors of Hiroshima » Read Now
by Rinjiro Sodei, John Junkerman. 208 pgs.

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This extraordinary book commemorates the 3,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans) who died from the atomic blast in Hiroshima & 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 & as "enemies" in...
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This extraordinary book commemorates the 3,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans) who died from the atomic blast in Hiroshima & 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 & as "enemies" in postwar United States, their pleas for medical help & political assistance have been ignored by both governments. Through this moving & enriching saga, Rinjiro Sodei makes the reader feel the power of individuals, who, against sociopolitical odds, have struggled to obtain their rights & sustain their bicultural identity.
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The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied Japan » Read Now
by Monica Braw. 200 pgs.

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...ATOMIC BOMB VOICES FROM HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI Edited and translated by...on the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 117 10...by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and...
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Truman and the Hiroshima Cult » Read Now
by Robert P. Newman. 274 pgs.

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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to end World War II as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. That is the compelling and elegantly simple argument Robert Newman puts forward in his controversial new study of World War II's end, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. Simply...
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to end World War II as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. That is the compelling and elegantly simple argument Robert Newman puts forward in his controversial new study of World War II's end, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. Simply stated, Newman argues that Truman made a sensible military decision. As commander in chief, he was concerned with ending a devastating and costly war as quickly as possible and with saving millions of lives. Yet, Newman goes further in his discussion, seeking the reasons why so much hostility has been generated by what happened in the skies over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945. The source of discontent, he concludes, is a "cult" that has grown up in the United States since the 1960s. It was weaned on the disillusionment spawned by concerns about a military industrial complex, American duplicity and failure in the Vietnam War, and a mistrust of government following Watergate. The cult has a shrine, a holy day, a distinctive rhetoric of victimization, various items of scripture and, in Japan, support from a powerful Marxist constituency.
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands » Read Now
by James N. Yamazaki, Louis B. Fleming. 184 pgs.

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Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki's account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician in Charge of the United States Atomic...
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Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki's account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician in Charge of the United States Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Nagasaki, Yamazaki had served as a combat surgeon at the Battle of the Bulge where he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans. In Japan he was confronted with violence of another dimension - the devastating impact of a nuclear blast and the particularly insidious effects of radiation on children. Yamazaki's story is also one of striking juxtapositions, an account of a Japanese-American's encounter with racism, the story of a man who fought for his country while his parents were interned in a concentration camp in Arkansas.
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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 » Read Now
by Michihiko Hachiya. 238 pgs.

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...largely civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki generally is shunned, for...devastation witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was transposed to the global...more...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings » Read Now
by Eisei Ishikawa, David L. Swain. 526 pgs.

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The Atomic Bomb and the Citizens of Nagasaki, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Sadao Kamata, Stephen Salaff. 13 pgs.

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...holocaust, but the joint "Hiroshima-Nagasaki" experience, which changed...patriotically dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 as legitimate...parties in the...
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Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age » Read Now
by Laura Elizabeth Hein, Mark Selden. 302 pgs.

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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 U.S.-Japan relations throughout the last half of the twentieth century. It is now clear, however, that memories and lessons learned...
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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 U.S.-Japan relations throughout the last half of the twentieth century. It is now clear, however, that memories and lessons learned from the bombings are still being reworked and contested, perhaps even more heatedly than they were in 1945. Tracking the development of that fifty-year trajectory, this volume explores the ways in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples: for Americans, the dominant story is that the bombs provided an appropriate and necessary conclusion to a just war; for Japanese, it is a symbol of their victimization. The distinguished contributors analyze the ways in which memories of the bombs, constantly reworked in the media, in the arts, and in the political arena, continue to define important, albeit often unacknowledged, undercurrents in the U.S.-Japan relationship.
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America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory (Includes discussion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Philip West, Steven I. Levine, Jackie Hiltz. 296 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book brings a fresh perspective to three wars the United States fought in Asia between 1941 and 1975 - the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War - by focusing on the human dimension of war as experienced by those, on all sides, who fought, lived through, and later remembered them...
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This book brings a fresh perspective to three wars the United States fought in Asia between 1941 and 1975 - the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War - by focusing on the human dimension of war as experienced by those, on all sides, who fought, lived through, and later remembered them. The complex relationship between history and memory is brought to bear on analyses of cultural artifacts and productions including novels, films, short stories, and poems that derive from or evoke war. Even though the cultural approach concerns itself with the local and the particular rather than with the abstract and universal, it is inherently comparative. Moreover, it also relocates each war in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries themselves rather than seeing the war as merely a conflict between the United States and Asian nations. This volume is meant to encourage readers, especially in a teaching environment, to develop an understanding of the experience of war in Asia that isvariegated, fragmented, and complex, like the wars themselves.
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan » Read Now
by J. Samuel Walker. 144 pgs.

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...Bomb at Potsdam 53 6 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 76 7 Hiroshima in...Stalin at Potsdam 63 7 Hiroshima after the atomic attack 78 8 Nagasaki before and after the atomic bomb...