Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial by Robert Jay Lifton

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A study of the events surrounding the Hiroshima bombing focuses on its affects in America, considering the cover-up efforts by the government and linking the bombing to current insensitivities toward violence. Reprint. NYT.

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You cannot understand the twentieth century without Hiroshima.

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Introduction
The Raw Nerve

Part I: Explaining Hiroshima -- The Official Narrative
1. the Announcement
2. The Official Story Unfolds
3. First Breaks In The Narrative
4. Secrecy And Suppression
5. Restraining The Scientists
6. A Counter-narrative Emerges
7. Reassertying the Narrative: The Stimson Article

Part II: Making And Defending The Decision -- Harry Truman's Tragedy
1. Influencing Truman -- The Psychological Field
2. Truman Himself: the Man In The Decision
3. The Afterlife
4. Living His Own History

Part III: Memory and Witness-- Struggles With History
Introduction: On Historical Memory
1. American Presidents And The Lessons Of First Use
2. Defending The Bomb: Pioneers, Pilots and Crewmen, Veterans
3. A Different Witness: Scientists and Activists
4. The Media, the Historians, and the Illusion of Consensus
5. Commemorating Hiroshima: The Smithsonian Controversy

Part IV: Hiroshima's Legacy -- Moral, Psychological, Political
Introduction
1. Our Own Nuclear Entrapment
2. Moral Inversion
3. Desecration
4. National Self-Betrayal
5. Apocalyptic Concealment
6. American Numbing
7. Futurelessness and Cultural Disarray
8. Late-Twentieth-Century Death -- and Renewal

Coda

Appendix: Cultural Responses to Hiroshima

Notes

Index

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Robert Jay Lifton (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0399140727
Page Count: 425

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Dewey: 940.5425

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Books › History › Military › World War II › Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Books › History › Military › Weapons & Warfare › Nuclear
Books › Nonfiction › Current Events › Arms Control
Books › History › Americas › United States
Books › History › Asia › Japan
Books › History › Military › Strategy
Books › History › World

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