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After Hiroshima: The United States, Race, and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945-1965

By Matthew Jones

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521881005, 9780521881005
LCC
DS518.8 .J66 2010
Google Books ID
tmQ4IIfdthIC
Open Library ID
OL24480260M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2291278 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
516\516
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

By emphasising the role of nuclear issues, After Hiroshima provides a new history of American policy in Asia between the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, Matthew Jones charts the development of American nuclear strategy and the foreign policy problems it raised, as the United States both confronted China and attempted to win the friendship of an Asia emerging from colonial domination. In underlining American perceptions that Asian peoples saw the possible repeat use of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of Western attitudes of 'white superiority', he offers new insights into the links between racial sensitivities and the conduct of US policy, and a fresh interpretation of the transition in American strategy from massive retaliation to flexible response in the era spanned by the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

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