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- catalog abstract "The use of nuclear weapons on civilian populations has weighed heavily on our national conscience - with profound effects, argue Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they have written the first book that assesses the political, ethical, and psychological impact of Hiroshima on our nation. The book opens on August 6, 1945, the day of the bombing of Hiroshima, with the official statement by President Harry S. Truman, which began our government's extensive distortion of information and management of the news media. The story comes to a climax nearly fifty years later, with an inside view of the recent debacle at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., when a wave of opposition forced the museum to cancel a full exhibit about the atomic bombing and its human effects. Throughout Hiroshima in America, the authors offer a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of what we have lost by our unwillingness to face the truth about Hiroshima. They also present a landmark portrait of Harry Truman and an exploration of the factors that led him to authorize using the bomb, and defend that act for the rest of his life.".
- catalog contributor b7933237.
- catalog contributor b7933238.
- catalog coverage "Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Influence.".
- catalog coverage "Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-414) and index.".
- catalog description "The use of nuclear weapons on civilian populations has weighed heavily on our national conscience - with profound effects, argue Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they have written the first book that assesses the political, ethical, and psychological impact of Hiroshima on our nation. The book opens on August 6, 1945, the day of the bombing of Hiroshima, with the official statement by President Harry S. Truman, which began our government's extensive distortion of information and management of the news media. The story comes to a climax nearly fifty years later, with an inside view of the recent debacle at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., when a wave of opposition forced the museum to cancel a full exhibit about the atomic bombing and its human effects. Throughout Hiroshima in America, the authors offer a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of what we have lost by our unwillingness to face the truth about Hiroshima. They also present a landmark portrait of Harry Truman and an exploration of the factors that led him to authorize using the bomb, and defend that act for the rest of his life.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Explaining Hiroshima -- the official narrative -- The announcement -- The official story unfolds -- First breaks in the narrative -- Secrecy and suppression -- Restraining the scientists -- A counter-narrative emerges -- Reasserting the narrative: the Stimson article.".
- catalog description "pt. 2. Making and defending the decision -- Harry Truman's tragedy -- Influencing Truman -- the psychological field -- Truman himself: the man in the decision -- The afterlife -- Living his own history.".
- catalog description "pt. 3. Memory and witness -- struggles with history -- Introduction: On historical memory -- American presidents and the lessons of first use -- Defending the bomb: pioneers, pilots and crewmen, veterans -- A different witness: scientists and activists -- The media, the historians, and the illusion of consensus -- Commemorating Hiroshima: the Smithsonian controversy.".
- catalog description "pt. 4. Hiroshima's legacy -- moral, psychological, political -- Our own nuclear entrapment -- Moral inversion -- Desecration -- National self-betrayal -- Apocalyptic concealment -- American numbing -- Futurelessness and cultural disarray -- Late twentieth century death -- and renewal.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 425 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Hiroshima in America.".
- catalog identifier "0399140727 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hiroshima in America.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Putnam's Sons,".
- catalog relation "Hiroshima in America.".
- catalog spatial "Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Influence.".
- catalog spatial "Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog spatial "Japan.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "940.54/25 20".
- catalog subject "Atomic bomb victims Japan.".
- catalog subject "D767.25.H6 L42 1995".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Explaining Hiroshima -- the official narrative -- The announcement -- The official story unfolds -- First breaks in the narrative -- Secrecy and suppression -- Restraining the scientists -- A counter-narrative emerges -- Reasserting the narrative: the Stimson article.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 2. Making and defending the decision -- Harry Truman's tragedy -- Influencing Truman -- the psychological field -- Truman himself: the man in the decision -- The afterlife -- Living his own history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 3. Memory and witness -- struggles with history -- Introduction: On historical memory -- American presidents and the lessons of first use -- Defending the bomb: pioneers, pilots and crewmen, veterans -- A different witness: scientists and activists -- The media, the historians, and the illusion of consensus -- Commemorating Hiroshima: the Smithsonian controversy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 4. Hiroshima's legacy -- moral, psychological, political -- Our own nuclear entrapment -- Moral inversion -- Desecration -- National self-betrayal -- Apocalyptic concealment -- American numbing -- Futurelessness and cultural disarray -- Late twentieth century death -- and renewal.".
- catalog title "Hiroshima in America : fifty years of denial / Robert Jay Lifton & Greg Mitchell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".