Word: hiroshima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, ranging chronologically from the Jamestown colony to Watergate. They show how each subject makes different demands on the historian. The Salem witch trials of 1692, for example, call for close scrutiny of a single, tiny village, while the U.S. decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima demands a broad inquiry into the dynamics of overlapping committees and bureaucracies. Finally, Davidson and Lytle show how certain historians have faced and stared down these problems...
...anyone else's democracy completely safe in this world, not when the many more than one million Hiroshima incinerators which exist today can make dust of man more than dozen times. It is too great a strain on the imagination to think that from the ashes of a first time, anyone will arise to implement a nuclear advantage. Even if nuclear war were limited to the destruction of the cradle of Western civilization, it would only be the image before the heat, radiation, and campaigns two, three and four dissolved homo sapiens and his worn-out ethics...
...situation where it could not avoid war. "He made people believe everything would work out all right. And by and large, it did." I guess so, if you consider "all right" the atomic bomb and the Cold War, tangible results of Roosevelt's leadership. But The Crimson, if not Hiroshima and Solidarity, survived, so I suppose you are right. Charles D. Bunting...
...world is as close to the brink of nuclear war as headlines say, Reagan and Brezhnev are meeting in the wrong place. There's only one spot where the masters of our fate should confer: Hiroshima. Its ghosts might give them pause...
...tested an ICBM in 1957, well before the first U.S. test firing in November 1958. Soviet missile submarines, though markedly inferior to the American Polaris system, appeared earlier. And the Soviet nuclear weapons program, which included organized espionage within the Manhattan project, began no later than 1943, well before Hiroshima. Again, how many in the audience knew these details, and knew Kapralov was indulging in propaganda? Very few, if one judges from the applause he received Kapralov clearly knew how to play to his audience, and didn't mind stretching the truth to give them just what they wanted...