Hiroshima's shadow
(Book)

A social conscience for the nuclear age / Joseph Rotblat -- The legend of Hiroshima / Lawrence Lifschultz, Kai Bird -- 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 post-war myth : 500,000 U.S. lives saved / Barton J. Bernstein -- The invasion that never was / Adam Goodheart -- The construction of conventional wisdom / Uday Mohan, Sanho Tree -- Seizing the contested terrain of early nuclear history / Barton J. Bernstein -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Henry L. Stimson -- Thank God for the atom bomb / Paul Fussell -- Hiroshima and modern memory / Martin J. Sherwin -- The horror and the shame / The editors of Commonweal -- "Victory for what?" : The voice of the minority / Paul Boyer -- Leaving the bomb project / Joseph Rotblat -- The atom bomb & 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 J. Yavenditti -- The "Hiroshima" New Yorker / Mary McCarthy -- The literacy of survival / Norman Cousins -- An opinion on Hiroshima / Edgar R. Smothers -- Has it come to this? / A.J. Muste -- The battle of the Enola Gay / Mike Wallace -- Unconditional surrender at the Smithsonian / John W. Dower -- Memory, myth and history / Martin J. Sherwin -- Smithsonian suffers Legionnaires' Disease / Stanley Goldberg -- How the U.S. press missed the target / Tony Capaccio, Uday Mohan -- The war of the op-ed pages. How a genuine democracy should celebrate its past / John W. Dower ; The Enola Gay : a nation's, and a museum's, dilemma / Martin Harwit ; The curators cave in / Kai Bird ; The Smithsonian and the bomb / Editorial, The New York Times ; World War II revised, or, How we bombed Japan out of racism and spite / Charles Krauthammer ; Beyond the Smithsonian flap : historians' new consensus ; Enola Gay : a new consensus / Gar Alperovitz ; What new consensus? / Robert P. Newman ; Dropping a bomb of an idea / Jonathan Yardley ; Hiroshima, rewritten / Barton J. Bernstein ; The trend of history / Editorial, the Wall Street Journal ; The Smithsonian changes course / Editorial, The Washington Post ; --Or Hiroshima "cult"? / Edwin M. Yoder Jr. ; Truman was right in 1945 / Albert R. Hunt ; Nagasaki / Stanley Goldberg ; The revisionists' agenda / Stephen S. Rosenfeld -- Enola Gay : "patriotically correct" / Kai Bird -- The day Hiroshima disappeared / Shuntaro Hida -- The unsurrendered people / Kenzaburo Oé -- Summer flower / Tamiki Hara --