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May 18, 2013

Last updated: September 22, 2008

Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois

Swords and Ploughshares series
Vol. IX / No. 3-4 / Spring-Summer 1995

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Summary

Fiftieth anniversaries of momentous event are always contentious because they are the last opportunity for participants to collectively influence the judgment of history. The essays in this special issue of Swords and Ploughshares are intended to serve as a modest guide to the forthcoming fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Contents

Introduction [PDF]
Stephen P. Cohen

The Decision to Bomb Hiroshima [PDF]
Albert Wattenberg

A Government in Disarray [PDF]
William Widenor

Hiroshima as History: Some Preliminary Thoughts [PDF]
Kevin Doak

Responses to Hiroshima in Japanese Literature [PDF]
David G. Goodman

Japan: An Ambivalent Nation, an Ambivalent Cinema [PDF]
David M. Desser

Outside the Park [PDF]
John Lie

Lessons of Hiroshima: A Geopolitical Perspective [PDF]
Edward A. Kolodziej

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty [PDF]
John Wedge

Iraq and the Bomb [PDF]
Jason Zych

Bibliography [PDF]
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