Bridging the atomic divide : debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki /: debating Japan-US Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Nihonjin no genbaku toka ron wa konomama de yoi no ka.
• Further Information: Note: Harry J. Wray, Seishiro Sugihara ; translated by Norman Hu.
• Authors: Wray, Harry, 1931-; Sugihara, Seishirō, 1941-
• Other Names: Hu, Norman translator.
• Contents: Foreword, <span style="font-style:italic;">Miyuki Wray ; ; Preface to the Japanese Edition ; ; Translator&rsquo;s Note ; ; Chapter 1: Descent into Inhumanity ; ; Chapter 2: The Unconditional Surrender Formula and Limited Alternatives to Atomic Bombs: Pros and Cons ; ; Chapter 3: The Potsdam Declaration: A Missed Opportunity By Japan To Avoid Atomic Bombings and a Soviet Entry ; ; Chapter 4: That &ldquo;Final Decisive Battle&rdquo; ; ; Chapter 5: The Role of Decrypted Messages ; ; Chapter 6: Japan&rsquo;s Decision to Wage a Final Decisive Battle Produced the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, the first of the &ldquo;Triple Shocks&rdquo; ; ; Chapter 7: Two Shocks in One Day ; ; Chapter 8: Militants&rsquo; Intransigent Response: Extinction before Surrender ; ; Chapter 9: Contentious Issues Surrounding the Atomic Bombings, the Mistaken &ldquo;Atomic Diplomacy&rdquo; Thesis, and its Impact on Japanese Textbooks ; ; Conclusion ; ; Appendix A: Supplemental Commentary&mdash;Diplomacy at Start and End of Japan-US War, and Subsequent Problems ; ; Appendix B: Regarding Wray&rsquo;s Examination of the Pearl Harbor Issue ; ; Appendix C: The Historical Significance of President Obama&rsquo;s Visit to Hiroshima ; ; Afterword
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 940.54252; Atomic bomb -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; Collective memory -- Japan; Collective memory -- United States; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498593229
• Related ISBNs: 9781498593212
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