Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial (Repost)
Robert J. Lifton - Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial
Avon Books | 1996 | ISBN: 0380727641 | English | 427 pages | PDF | 172.9 MB
Avon Books | 1996 | ISBN: 0380727641 | English | 427 pages | PDF | 172.9 MB
"You cannot understand the twentieth century without Hiroshima." So begins this profound and transforming book about the aftermath of America's use of the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of World War II. The authors, who have studied the atomic bombings for decades, illuminate what really happened on August 6, 1945, the day the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by a revolutionary new weapon. They explore President Truman's complex motives for authorizing, and then defending, the use of the bomb. But it is when Lifton and Mitchell write about the reverberations of Hiroshima through American society that they are at their most brilliant and original. They probe a troubling era of secrecy and cover-up initiated by Hiroshima and the growing American "psychic numbing" to senseless death and violence.