The Age of Hiroshima (eBook)

Michael D. Gordin, G. John Ikenberry (Herausgeber)

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2020
448 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19529-2 (ISBN)

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A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2020
• Co-Autor: Campbell Craig, Alex Wellerstein, Sean L. Malloy, David Holloway, Takuya Sasaki, Shinsuke Tomotsugu, Srinath Raghavan, Wakana Mukai, Matias Spektor, Holger Nehring, Kiichi Fujiwara, Avery Goldstein, Sonja D. Schmid, Shampa Biswas, Nina Tannenwald, Francis Gavin
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: activism • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty • anti-nuclear movement • Atomic Age • Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission • Atoms for Peace • ballistic missile • Bandung Conference • Bernard Brodie (military strategist) • Bomb • Campaign for Nuclear disarmament • chemical weapon • China • Coalition Government • Cold War • Colonialism • communism • Cornell University Press • counterforce • cuban missile crisis • de facto • Disarmament • Dissolution of the Soviet Union • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Edward Said • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Francis Gavin • Geopolitics • Government of Japan • Great Power • Harry S. Truman • hegemony • Henry Kissinger • Ideology • International Atomic Energy Agency • International Law • International Relations • International Security • Jawaharlal Nehru • Latin America • Military Strategy • Modernity • Mutual Assured Destruction • Nagasaki • national security • Nikita Khrushchev • North Korea • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear Arms Race • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear explosive • nuclear fallout • Nuclear Material • Nuclear power • nuclear proliferation • nuclear reactor • Nuclear safety and security • nuclear strategy • Nuclear technology • nuclear umbrella • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapons testing • occupation of japan • Pacifism • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Postwar Japan • power politics • Princeton University Press • Racism • Research reactor • Scientist • Scott Sagan • Second World • security studies • South Asia • Soviet Union • strategic bombing • Superiority (short story) • Technology • The Fate of the Earth • The New York Times • Thermonuclear weapon • third world • Total War • Treaty • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons • Uncertainty • United States • United States Department of State • war • War Crime • Weapon • weapon of mass destruction • West Germany • World War • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19529-3 / 0691195293
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19529-2 / 9780691195292