Unfinished Atomic Bomb

David Lowe is chair in contemporary history at Deakin University.Cassandra Atherton received a PhD in literary studies from the University of Melbourne.Alyson Miller is lecturer in writing and literature at Deakin University.

• Introduction: An Unfinished Atomic Bomb, David Lowe, Cassandra Atherton, and Alyson MillerChapter 1: Defending the Indefensible: The Tragic Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets, Jr., Peter J. KuznickChapter 2: Article 9 as Memorial, Carolyn StevensChapter 3: Atomic Bomb Literature for Children: Tatsuharu Kodama’s The Lunch Box and Shin’s Tricycle, Alyson MillerChapter 4: Fading Lights: Digital Visualization and the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mick BroderickChapter 5: Two-Way Mirror: The Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the U.S.–North Korea Nuclear Crisis, Adam BroinowskiChapter 6: Hibaku Jumoku, Nature, and Hiroshima’s Recovery after the A-Bomb, Glenn MooreChapter 7: “In the Shadow of the Cloud”: Hibakusha Poets as Public Intellectuals, Cassandra AthertonChapter 8: The Flowers of Hiroshima, Monica BrawChapter 9: The Manhattan Project Historical National Park, David LoweChapter 10: Hi-Roshimon: What We See When We Look at Hiroshima, Robert Jacobs

The atomic bombings, because of the sheer scale of their destruction and the long-term effects on the human mind and body, compelled the survivors to live as hibakusha throughout their entire lives. The essays compiled in this book eloquently describe their struggle to come to terms with their mangled lives and analyze how the wider world tried to remember, and sometimes forget, the human cost of the bombing. This is a compassionate, timely, and extremely readable book that reminds readers that it is our responsibility to pass on the memories of the atomic bombing so that there shall be ‘no more Hiroshima and Nagasaki.’