Nagasaki : life after nuclear war / Susan Southard.
2015
D767.25.N3 S68 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Nagasaki : life after nuclear war / Susan Southard.
Author
Southard, Susan, author.
ISBN
9780670025626 (hardcover)
0670025623 (hardcover)
0670025623 (hardcover)
Published
New York, New York : Viking, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xix, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
D767.25.N3 S68 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.54/8252
Summary
This book is a powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation. Susan Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha ("bomb-affected people") and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together dramatic eyewitness accounts with searing analysis of the policies of censorship and denial that colored much of what was reported about the bombing both in the United States and Japan. A gripping narrative of human resilience, Nagasaki will help shape public discussion and debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history. - Publisher.
Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life.
Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index.
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Table of Contents
A note on Japanese names and terms
Prologue
Convergence
Flashpoint
Embers
Exposed
Time suspended
Emergence
Afterlife
Against forgetting
Gaman
Hibakusha sources and selected bibliography.
Prologue
Convergence
Flashpoint
Embers
Exposed
Time suspended
Emergence
Afterlife
Against forgetting
Gaman
Hibakusha sources and selected bibliography.