A study of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath provides an account of the victims, the efforts of caregivers, and the struggle to come to terms with the tragedy
"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."
Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today.
WRITING IN 1924 , less than ten years after the outbreak of World War I , the German writer Thomas Mann spoke of the prewar era as being " in the long ago , in the old days , the days of the world before the Great War , with whose ...
Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness.
Hiroshima
En août 1963, Kenzaburô Ôé, alors brillant écrivain de vingt-huit ans, part à Hiroshima faire un reportage sur la neuvième Conférence mondiale contre les armes nucléaires.
Illustrations and personal family photos give a glimpse into Sadako's life and the horrors of war. Proceeds from this book are shared equally between The Sadako Legacy NPO and The Peace Crane Project.
Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day.
The use of nuclear weapons on civilian populations has weighed heavily on our national conscience - with profound effects, argue Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell. To mark the fiftieth...
The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki