Southard, Susan,
Nagasaki : life after nuclear war / Susan Southard. - xxiii, 389 pages illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index.
A note on Japanese names and terms -- Prologue -- Convergence -- Flashpoint -- Embers -- Exposed -- Time suspended -- Emergence -- Afterlife -- Against forgetting -- Gaman -- Hibakusha sources and selected bibliography.
This book is an 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 eyewitness accounts with 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.
0143109421 9780143109426
Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Japan : 1945)
1900-1999
Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Nagasaki-shi--Biography.
Social conditions.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--Social conditions--20th century.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History.
D767.25.N3 / S68 2016
940.548252 Sou 15
Nagasaki : life after nuclear war / Susan Southard. - xxiii, 389 pages illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index.
A note on Japanese names and terms -- Prologue -- Convergence -- Flashpoint -- Embers -- Exposed -- Time suspended -- Emergence -- Afterlife -- Against forgetting -- Gaman -- Hibakusha sources and selected bibliography.
This book is an 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 eyewitness accounts with 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.
0143109421 9780143109426
Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Japan : 1945)
1900-1999
Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Nagasaki-shi--Biography.
Social conditions.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--Social conditions--20th century.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History.
D767.25.N3 / S68 2016
940.548252 Sou 15