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Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey (1946)
Going on 80 years, John Hersey’s Hiroshima still affects how we think about the human impacts of nuclear weapons. As August comes to a close, I want to wrap up the month by looking at John Hersey’s eye-opening, first-person account of the Hiroshima bombing. Hiroshima, first published in the August 1946 issue of The New…
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Book Review: The Rise of Nuclear Fear by Spencer Weart (2012)
Why are negative views of nuclear topics so common? Spencer Weart has spent years explaining that very question. The Rise of Nuclear Fear by Spencer R. Weart builds upon the author’s earlier notable 1988 work Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. I have not read Weart’s earlier work and so cannot comment on it much,…
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Barefoot Gen (1983): A Child’s Tale of the Hiroshima Bombing
Today marks 81 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Barefoot Gen tells us the story through a child’s eyes. Barefoot Gen is a 1983 anime film directed by Mori Masaki and based on Keiji Nakazara’s manga of the same name. The film explores main character Gen’s experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and…