The Nagasaki Peace Discourse: City Hall and the Quest for a Nuclear Free World (Asia Briefings)
By Geoffrey C. Gunn.
Description
With some 20,000 or more people killed instantly in the atomic bombing of 9 August 1945, an additional 40,000 or more dying from radiation and related illnesses in the coming days and weeks, and with myriad others exposed to radiation effects, Nagasaki today is a city that remembers and reminds. But this was not always the case―in contrast with Hiroshima as the first atom bombed city, Nagasaki long stood out for the piety of its significant and historically persecuted Catholic population. New voices and new narratives would eventually emerge, however, especially among the surviving victims ...
ISBN(s)
8776942740, 9788776942748
