The age of Hiroshima

by Gordin, Michael D. Ikenberry, Gilford John

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Title Statements

Full title :The age of Hiroshima / edited by Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry.

Summary

On 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:x, 431 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780691193441, 0691193444, 9780691193458, 0691193452
oclc:on1150797318
Dewey Decimal:355.009

Part I. Decisions and choices -- part II. Movements and resistances -- part III. Revolutions and transformations.

Subjects

Atomare Abrüstung Atomare Rüstung Atombombenabwurf auf Hiroshima Atomic bomb Atomic bomb - History - 20th century Atomic bomb -- Japan Aufsatzsammlung Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : 1… Bombe atomique -- Japon Geschichte Hiroshima (Japon) -- Histoire -- 1945 (… Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bom… History Japan -- Hiroshima-shi Nuclear weapons -- Government policy Nuclear weapons -- Government policy --… Nuclear weapons -- Government policy --… Politische Bewegung World politics World politics -- 20th century