Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age

Laura E. Hein, Mark Selden

I: Introduction; 1: Commemoration and Silence; II: Commemoration and Censorship; 2: Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia; 3: Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki; 4: Making Things Visible; 5: Commemoration Controversies; 6: Mass Death in Miniature; 7: Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline; III: Contending Constituencies; 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 9: The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches; 10: Memory Matters; 11: Were We the Enemy?; 12: Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory; IV: Afterword; 13: Learning about Patriotism, Decency, and the Bomb