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Hiroshima and Nagasaki : retrospect and prospect

Title: Hiroshima and Nagasaki : retrospect and prospect / edited by Douglas Holdstock and Frank Barnaby.
Publication: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, ©1995.

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ix, 109 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In August 1945, over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic weapons were used for the first time. About 100,000 people died instantly; by the end of the year some 200,000 were dead, and many thousands since have died of leukaemia and other malignant diseases."--BOOK JACKET. "A distinguished group of contributors look back at these events and their consequences, and forward to the prospects of ridding the world of the 45,000 nuclear weapons now in the stockpiles. They present evidence that Japan was negotiating for peace well before the bombings, which were as much the start of the East-West Cold War as the end of the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET. "Far from preventing war, the existence of nuclear weapons came close to causing war at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, and has led to war by proxy between East and West in their client states in the developing world. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting economic crisis, there is concern that fissile material or even nuclear weapons could be obtained illicitly by 'rogue' governments or terrorist groups."--BOOK JACKET. "There is a close relationship between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Knowledge of how to make nuclear weapons of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki type is freely available, and ample supplies of plutonium are generated in nuclear reactors every year - not least in Japan itself."--BOOK JACKET. "Prevention of nuclear war requires a nuclear-weapon-free world. The contributors to this volume have been in the forefront of efforts to achieve this, including the attempt to have the use and threat of nuclear weapons declared illegal by the International Court of Justice. They advocate the need for a Convention, backed by a resolution of the UN Security Council, declaring the testing, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons illegal, and call for security to be redefined in order to address the problems of North-South confrontation and achieve a genuinely peaceful world order."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Medicine and war ; v.11, no 3

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Genre/Form

History.
Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The past. Hiroshima and Nagasaki : the bombings and their aftermath. The effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Frank Barnaby -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki : the beginning of the nuclear age / Kazuyo Yamane -- The acquisition of nuclear weapons / Frank Barnaby -- The present. Nuclear threats today. The current status of the nuclear arms race / Paul Rogers -- Fifty years after Nagasaki : Japan as plutonium superpower / Shaun Burnie.
Current attitudes to the atomic bombings in Japan / Kazuyo Yamane -- Illegal trafficking in the nuclear fissile materials : likely customers and suppliers / Jasjit Singh -- The future. Ways out of the nuclear arms race. Do nuclear weapons have any rational utility? / Frank Barnaby -- The end of the beginning : progress towards the abolition of nuclear weapons / Victor Sidel -- Nuclear weapons : the legality issue / Rob Green -- The goal. A nuclear-weapon-free world. A nuclear-weapon-free world : the essential lesson of Hiroshima / Joseph Rotblat.

ISBN

0714646679
9780714646671
0714642029
9780714642024
07146420409 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

95040610

OCLC

ocm33161281
33161281
SCSB-2072085

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library