Contributor
Bird, Kai.
Imprint:Stony Creek, Conn. : Pamphleteer's Press, c1998.
Descriptionlxxvii, 584 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Note:"Preface by Dr. Joseph Rotblat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize"--Jacket.
Note:Preface: A social conscience for the nuclear age / Joseph Rotblat -- Introduction: The legend of Hiroshima / Lawrence Lifschultz, Kail Bird -- I. Hiroshima myths vs. modern scholarship: Historians reassess: did we need to drop the bomb? / Gar Alperovitz -- Did the bomb end the war? / Murray Sayle -- The logic of mass destruction / Mark Selden -- The first nuclear war / Wilfred Burchett -- The decision to use the bombs / P.M.S. Blackett -- New evidence on Truman's decision / Robert L. Messer -- Three attempts to stop the bomb / William Lanouette -- Racing to the finish / Stanley Goldberg -- A postwar myth: 500,000 U.S. lives saved / Barton Bernstein -- The invasion that never was / Adam Goodheart -- The construction of conventional wisdom / Uday Mohan, Sanho Tree -- II. The early controversy: -- Seizing the contested terrain of early nuclear history / Barton Bernstein -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Henry Stimson -- Thank God for the atomic bomb / Paul Fussell --- Hiroshima and modern memory / Martin Sherwin -- III. The first critics: -- The horror and the shame / Editors of Commonweal -- Victory for what? the voice of the minority / Paul Boyer -- Leaving the bomb project / Joseph Rotblat -- The atomic bomb and Ahimsa / Mahatma Gandhi -- Between hell and reason / Albert Camus -- The decline to barbarism / Dwight Macdonald -- When cruelty becomes pleasurable / Norman Thomas -- The return to nothingness / Felix Morley -- Our relations to Japan / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Nothing but nihilism / James Martin Gillis -- What hath man wrought! / David Lawrence -- Gentlemen: you are mad! / Lewis Mumford -- John Hersey and the American conscience / Michael Yavenditti -- The "Hiroshima" New Yorker / Mary McCarthy -- The literacy of survival / Norman Cousins -- An opinion on Hiroshima / Edgar R. Smothers, S.J. -- Has it come to this? / A.J. Muste -- IV. Censoring history at the Smithsonian: -- The battle of the Enola Gay / Mike Wallace -- Unconditional surrender at the Smithsonian / John Dower -- Memory, myth and history / Martin Sherwin -- How the U.S. press missed the target / Tony Capaccio, Uday Mohan -- The war of the op-ed pages -- V. Shadows: -- The day Hiroshima disappeared / Shuntaro Hida -- The unsurrendered people / Kenzaburo Oé -- Summer flower / Tamiki Hara -- Hiroshima memories / Hideko Tamura Snider -- Beyond the ashes / Takashi Hiraoka, Hitoshi Motoshima -- Fifty years after Hiroshima / John Rawls -- VI. Documents: -- The peril of universal death / Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell -- Atomic warfare & the Christian faith / Federal Council of Churches -- Japan's struggle to end the war / United States Strategic Bombing Survey -- The Grew memo: accept Emperor as post-war constitutional monarch -- The Marshall memo: change the terms of unconditional surrender -- The McCloy diary: Marshall argues restrict first use to military target -- The Leahy diary: prospect of a negotiated surrender -- The Forrestal diary: Japanese peace feelers -- The Magic intercepts: Japanese terms for conditional surrender -- The Stimson memo: prior warning with "ample time" -- The Bissell memo: prospects for Japan's surrender -- The Forrestal diary: McCloy's dissent on the emperor & prior warning -- The Truman diary: Soviet entry means Japanese are "fini" -- The McCloy diary: warning, surrender & Truman's "Big red apple" -- The Brown diary: August 3rd Byrnes acknowledges Japan "looking for peace" -- The Stimson diary: The Soviets and the S-I master card -- The July 17th petition of Manhattan Project Scientists -- A note on the July 17th petition / William Lanouette -- Epilogue: The world court opinion / Lawrence Lifschultz.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
