Category: #3 Wages of Destruction
Japan and America: Different Perspectives to the Same End
With the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, the war seemed to be at an end. Soon after, the Japanese government signed a peace treaty and surrendered to the United States. America then took up the task of rebuilding Japan, beginning with setting up a new, democratic government that would allowJapan to grow and flourish into a …
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Atomic Horizon
Said General Arnold: “Although there now appear to be insurmountable difficulties in an active defense against future atomic projectiles similar to the German V-2 but armed with atomic explosives, this condition should only intensify our efforts to discover an effective means of defense.” The only defense now conceivable against a rocket, once it is in … Continue reading →
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Christopher Jackson Wages of Destruction Who can name a war greater or more well known that World War II. Known by some in America as the last great patriotic war. While also being the last total war ever to be fought between America and any other nation. Though not the last war ever fought or …
Wages of Destruction
Two articles, one “Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens” by David Serlin and “Reconstructing the Perpetrator’s Soul by Reconstructing the Victim’s Body: The Portrayal of the ‘Hiroshima Maidens’ by the Mainstream Media in the United States” by Robert Jacobs discuss the same subject, the Hiroshima Maidens, women who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the US […]
Hiroshima Maidens
The Keloid Girls were a little known group of Japanese girls who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Scarred and disfigured in horrendous ways they became outcasts and pariahs to their people. In an effort to provide aid to the victims of the war and to gain positive publicity and take attention away from anti … Continue reading “Hiroshima Maidens”
Wages of Destruction- Parker Manning
http://www.mconway.net/page1/page15/files/Shock%20of%20Atomic%20Bomb.pdf http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1109877 The first thing I noticed about the article about the Hiroshima Maidens is the difference in attitude about the acceptance of western culture versus the traditional culture. The way the Japanese people handled the recovery and remembrance of the Hiroshima bombing and the aftermath, including the Hiroshima Maidens, showed how the country was … Continue reading “Wages of Destruction- Parker Manning”
Recovering from the Atomic Blasts
As the Second World War came to a close, the Allies were faced with a very difficult decision. Having already won the won in Europe,…
Different Rehabilitation Views
When discussing the rehabilitation of individuals two articles come in mind, one discusses a specific group of individuals from Japan while the other discusses the rehabilitation issues on the American home front. In David Serlin’s “Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens” he discusses how several woman who were affected by the atomic bomb had a chance to … Continue reading “Different Rehabilitation Views”
Postwar Reconstruction of the Body and Mind
In the articles Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens by David Serlin and The Veteran, His Wife, and Their Mothers by Rebecca Jo Plant we see an evaluation of two different types of reconstruction in the post war world. Serlin writes his article about a group of Japanese women who were severely injured when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima … Continue reading “Postwar Reconstruction of the Body and Mind”
Rehabilitating a Continent
As it became clear that the Allies would soon achieve victory over Nazi Germany, the next major issue was of course how to rebuild a continent that had been ravaged by the most brutal war in human history, but also how to ensure that a war like this could never happen again. It was largely…
