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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Nagasaki"”.
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The Decision and the Debate: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
… why we dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It continues with original research on Henry Stimson and Atomic Diplomacy, and concludes with the creation of several lesson plans for High School students, tied to specific NYS Social Studies Learning Standards. The first lesson is …
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Britain and the atomic bomb: MAUD to Nagasaki.
There is a brief introduction explaining the themes in the literature available to date and how this thesis aims to add to available material. In chapter one I give an account of early British research into nuclear science, including collaboration between British universities and the effect the …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
This dissertation traces the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945 by concentrating on politics and religion. It follows the various people and groups who contributed to the city's rise from the ashes and shaped its image in Japan and the world. In contrast to …
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When War Becomes Peace: Ruination and Transvaluation in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Parks
… to the devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet the atomic catastrophes endured by the two cities have become subsumed into what Anne McClintock terms the “administration of forgetting.” The traumas associated with the bombs have been construed in Japan as an experience of national …
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La imagen del martirio japonés en el periodo Namban: el cuadro del Gesú representando el gran martirio de Nagasaki y su función en la propaganda jesuítica de la misión
… siglo XVII que representa el Gran Martirio de Nagasaki de 1622. Este cuadro se puede considerar una de las obras más singulares de este templo por sus características estilísticas e iconográficas. No obstante, la relevancia del cuadro El Gran Martirio de Nagasaki se ha ignorado en los escritos …
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DISQUIETUDE
… the explosions. And, with close relatives in Nagasaki, I have also been keenly aware of the destructive power of atomic weapons: bodies vaporized by the nuclear bomb left permanent afterimages of human shadows etched on building walls in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the above reasons, I …
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DISQUIETUDE
… the explosions. And, with close relatives in Nagasaki, I have also been keenly aware of the destructive power of atomic weapons: bodies vaporized by the nuclear bomb left permanent afterimages of human shadows etched on building walls in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the above reasons, I …
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High Impact Weather Associated with a Predecessor Rain Event Over Misawa Air Base
… (TC). The second rain event occurred over Nagasaki on 18 September 2011 and does not meet the requirements for PRE classification. The Department of Defense (DoD) TC warning process focuses on TC induced sustained high winds and their proximity to landfall. This analysis shows the link …
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Pedestrian Accessibility and Individual’s Subjective Happiness
… the same strength as the overall analysis. For Nagasaki, Japan, there was not a statistically significant relationship between happiness and pedestrian accessibility, but this might be due to a problem in the street network data, so further investigation is required. In addition, a qualitative …
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The use of nuclear weapons under the doctrine of self-defence
… nuclear weapons have been used- in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945- it is necessary to examine three hypothetical situations in which nuclear weapons are used in self-defence to determine if, under any, exceptional circumstances such action could be lawful.
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The Questions of Compliance With the NPT Regime and Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of North Korea and Iran As Defector States
… of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, nuclear weapons have never been used in a war despite the conditions of international relations characterized by constant conflict and instability. The norm of nuclear nonproliferation institutionalized by the NPT has been …
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
… press reports of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through civil defense pamphlets, and ultimately to the science fiction b-movies of the fifties, the popular depiction of such nuclear icons as radiation, survival, and the Bomb, are analyzed for their symbolic, iconological content. The …
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Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement
… DC, on the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings; and events at the Buddhist Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda. I argue that these individuals form these alliances because in working with a Catholic and/or Buddhist group, they find a venue for activism which both …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… and culture under the specter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, influencing poets, musicians, and artists for generations to come.
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Drawing Apocalypse: Architectural Representation in the Nuclear Age and the Imagination of the End
… the unprecedented devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were coupled with visual and literary fictions projecting the aftermath of a world-ending atomic war. These fostered an atmosphere in which the possibility of the world’s end was not only real but imminent; a nuclear apocalyptic cloud which …
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The Vocational Imperative: Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictions and the Discourse of Denial
… experiences of Etsuko in post Second World War Nagasaki. Chapter three focuses on Ishiguro's understanding of the relationship between power and subjectivity and the delineation of the development of the fascist beliefs of Ono, the narrator in<i> An Artist of the Floating World</i>, under the …