Hiroshima in America : fifty years of denial / Robert Jay Lifton & Greg Mitchell.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Putnam's Sons, c1995.Description: xviii, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0399140727 (acid-free paper)
- D767.25.H6 L42 1995
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"A Grosset/Putnam book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-414) and index.
WAR, NEWBERY,
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. 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. 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. 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.