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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Culture shock and Japanese-American relations Culture shock and Japanese-American relations Sadao Asada "Examines historical episodes in the interactions between the United States and Japan from 1890 to 2006, focusing on naval stategy before and during World War II and transpacific racism. Asada analye… OL12252480W
J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer Peter Goodchild Interviews and newly released FBI material help to answer questions about the life, personality, and work of the man who headed the Los Alamos atom-bomb project and was later dismissed as a security … OL2002423W
Oppenheimer Oppenheimer Charles Thorpe At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulte… OL235743W
Hiroshima, 6 août 1945 Hiroshima, 6 août 1945 Jason Hook Chaque ouvrage de cette collection explique un moment historique marquant : le contexte et les événements y ayant conduit, le déroulement, les effets et répercussions. Le texte est clair et fouillé, … OL26434411W
Hiroshima Hiroshima John Richard Hersey Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast. OL2700123W
Hiroshima in America Hiroshima in America Robert Jay Lifton,Greg Mitchell,Greg Mitchell,Robert Jay Lifton A study of the events surrounding the Hiroshima bombing focuses on its effects in America, considering the cover-up efforts by the government and linking the bombing to current insensitivities toward… OL31299W