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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (75): 92–108.
Published: 01 October 1999
...Daniel Seltz Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 Remembering the War and the
Atomic Bombs: New Museums,
New Approaches
Daniel Seltz
Since the end of World War 11, the Japanese public has...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 149–172.
Published: 01 January 2017
... collective scientific energies to be applied to war and environmental destruction, rather than to the public good. In the shadow of the still-blazing light of the atomic bomb, and with increasing concern over chemical and biological weapons as well as an emerging environmental crisis, science needed to take...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 9–25.
Published: 01 October 1986
.... These alternatives were
quickly rejected as ”risky” (if warned, the Japanese might move
American prisoners of war into the target area, the bomb might be
a “dud”) or insufficiently demonstrative of the full destructive
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power of atomic weapons...
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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (75): 131–147.
Published: 01 October 1999
... similarly.
Three years later, with Hitler dead and the Nazis defeated, President
Harry Truman would be faced with a comparably weighty decision.
Although, on some level, he understood that dropping atomic bombs
on Japan would initiate a process that might one day result in ending
life...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (34): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 1986
... Hiroshima,” the exhibit has as its central focus two
atomic bomb casings, representing “Little Boy” and ”Fat Man,”
the uranium and plutonium bombs dropped by the United States
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War 11. Supporting ma-
terials include photographs of destruction in both cities...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 212–222.
Published: 01 January 2000
... and possibly
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avoidable tragedies, including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the atomic
bombing of Japan.
Groups use historical assumptions and perceptions of the enemy for
a wide range of purposes. In the course, we make a distinction between
propaganda and advocacy...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 268–272.
Published: 01 May 1995
... (28 January 1995), it appears that the Smithsonian
is about to cave into pressure from veterans‘ groups and conserva-
tive congressmen and drastically scale back its planned exhibit on
the Atomic Bomb and the end of World War 11, which the vets had
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charged...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 37–56.
Published: 01 January 2022
... about the novel H-bomb that the American government had hitherto kept secret ( Lapp, Voyage of the Lucky Dragon ). For more on the Japanese response to American atomic power in the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see, for instance, Yoneyama, Hiroshima Traces . 29. Oakland Tribune , “H-Bomb...
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Radical History Review (1987) 1987 (39): 164–170.
Published: 01 October 1987
...
Given the limited amount of space available, I identified three goals
for the exhibit. The first was to provide in outline form a context for
understanding the nature of the enterprise that led to the atomic bomb-
what was the money spent for? The second was to give a capsule ex-
planation...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 87–109.
Published: 01 October 1995
... of strategic bombing in World War I1 and the
advent of atomic weapons would have made deterrence a major
concern of U.S. strategists even if there had been no Cold War.
Strategic bombing uses air power to punish or to hurt, to undermine
the opponent’s will and war production, rather than to defeat...
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Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (48): 177–181.
Published: 01 October 1990
... bomb and the atom bomb than
between the atom bomb and conventional explosives This was a more
enlightened view than that espoused by Ike, who had stated that nuclear
weapons were ".just the latest conventional weapons." Churchiu's belief in
the need for a summit and his attendance at it made...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 171–173.
Published: 01 October 1995
... America since World War II? What was the
impact of the experience of the atom bomb project on America’s scientists,
politicians, and the public? And why are there disputes among experts? In
this class, we will examine the changing relationship between scientists, pol-
icy makers, and the public...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 110–116.
Published: 01 January 2005
...
the imperial government’s aggressive and coercive policies and of the U.S. decision
to drop atomic bombs, killing tens of thousands of citizens in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The anti–nuclear bomb movement had been widespread in Japan, but its
mentality had been that of victim. However, some...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 244–249.
Published: 01 May 1991
... for
auction what it advertised as the navigator’s log for the Enola
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Gay, the B-29 whose crew dropped the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima in 1945. Expected bids ranged from $lOO,OOO to
$150,000 (roughly $1 per casualty), but, as it turned out, no bids
were offered. It seems...
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Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (33): 139–154.
Published: 01 May 1985
... as vital to U.S. security inter-
ests in the Pacific. In an important essay, Mark Paul shows how the
atomic bomb played a major role in undermining the trusteeship
plans for Korea among American policy maker
In spite of urgings by Stalin at the July 1945 Potsdam confer-
ence...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 195–199.
Published: 01 May 1994
...
rather than years). None of this is likely to happen very quickly.
Georgi's plan to put the park on the site of an the army camp at
which Erich Honecker had a secret atomic bomb shelter has run into
local opposition. Paul Alesius, the Mayor of Prenden, where the
camp is located, is mobilizing...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (57): 274–278.
Published: 01 October 1993
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tory textbooks had noted that the Korean War had been "easily
settled when President Truman dropped the atomic bomb. What
is even more impressive is that the Texas Education Agency had
selected Holt's text for statewide adoption. The president of Holt's
school division admitted that 'We...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 261–264.
Published: 01 January 2006
...
in what remains the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history. (On the other side,
some 22,000 Japanese soldiers had chosen to die rather than surrender.) It was to
avoid American sacrifices of this magnitude, Americans were later told, that the
atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (79): 173–202.
Published: 01 January 2001
...
back its planned exhibit on the Atomic Bomb and the end
of World War II, which the vets had charged was too sym-
pathetic to the Japanese. Veterans’ groups had already won
dramatic revisions in the exhibit script, but the election of
the Republican...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 63–85.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... © 2017 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2017 colonial postcolonial science medicine postcolonial theory References Abraham Itty . 1999 . The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy, and the Postcolonial State . London : Zed Books...
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