90 Seconds to Midnight
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-630-5 (ISBN)
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90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a thirteen-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has lasted seven decades.
In 2015 Thurlow sparked a rallying cry for activists when she proclaimed at the United Nations, “Humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” With that, she shifted the global discussion from nuclear deterrence to humanitarian consequences, the key in crafting the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Regarded as the conscience of the antinuclear movement, Thurlow accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. With the fate of humanity at stake and with the resolve of her samurai ancestors, Thurlow challenged leaders of the nuclear-armed states. On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect, banning nuclear weapons under international law.
Critical historical events need a personal narrative, and Thurlow is such a storyteller for Hiroshima. 90 Seconds to Midnight recounts Thurlow’s ascent from the netherworld where she saw, heard, and smelled death and her relentless efforts to protect the world from an unspeakable fate. Knowing she would have to live with those nightmares, Thurlow turned them into a force to impel people across the globe to learn from Hiroshima, to admit that yes, it could happen again—and then to take action.
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease.
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations, Notes on Japanese Names
Prologue
Part I: Before
Chapter 1. The Heart of a Samurai
Chapter 2. A Cherry Blossom Life
Chapter 3. Raising the Flag of the Rising Sun
Chapter 4. August 6, 1945
Part II: After
Chapter 5. Necropolis
Chapter 6. Life Among the Ruins
Chapter 7. Occupied
Chapter 8. Where Was God on August 6?
Chapter 9. Born to Serve
Chapter 10. Falling in Love in Bibai
Part III: The Quest
Chapter 11. Crossing Borders
Chapter 12. Blood on Our Hands
Chapter 13. In the Interim
Chapter 14. Witness
Chapter 15. Watchman
Chapter 16. Indifference Is Not an Option
Chapter 17. Reframing the Narrative
Chapter 18. The Point of No Return
Chapter 19. Confronting Truman
Chapter 20. Moving Toward Zero
Chapter 21. The Nerve of Moral Indignation
Chapter 22. Glory
Chapter 23. The Road to Ratification
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 19 photos, 1 map, index |
| Verlagsort | Dulles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64012-630-9 / 1640126309 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64012-630-5 / 9781640126305 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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