Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Hiroshima’s Legacies 1
5. Part I. Decisions and Choices
6. 2. The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker: FDR and the Road Not Taken 19
7. 3. The Kyoto Misconception: What Truman Knew, and Didn’t Know, about Hiroshima 34
8. 4. “When You Have to Deal with a Beast”: Race, Ideology, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb 56
9. 5. Racing toward Armageddon? Soviet Views of Strategic Nuclear War, 1955–1972 71
10. 6. The Evolution of Japanese Politics and Diplomacy under the Long Shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1974–1991 89
11. Part II. Movements and Resistances
12. 7. The Bandung Conference and the Origins of Japan’s Atoms for Peace Aid Program for Asian Countries 109
13. 8. India in the Early Nuclear Age 129
14. 9. The Unnecessary Option to Go Nuclear: Japan’s Nonnuclear Policy in an Era of Uncertainty, 1950s–1960s 144
15. 10. Nuclear Revolution and Hegemonic Hierarchies: How Global Hiroshima Played Out in South America 164
16. 11. Remembering War, Forgetting Hiroshima: “Euroshima” and the West German Anti–Nuclear Weapons Movements in the Cold Wa 179
17. 12. Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan 201
18. Part III. Revolutions and Transformations
19. 13. The End of the Beginning: China and the Consolidation of the Nuclear Revolution 221
20. 14. Data, Discourse, and Disruption: Radiation Effects and Nuclear Orders 243
21. 15. Nuclear Harms and Global Disarmament 259
22. 16. The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo in the Twenty-First Century 276
23. 17. History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age: Reflections on Assumptions, Uncertainty, and Method in Nuclear Studies 294
24. Notes 313
25. List of Contributors 395
26. Index 399