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    The passages from Rotter’s book, "Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb" which will be released in February, provided detailed and personal accounts of the experiences of both the firebombing of Tokyo and the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima by the United States in 1945. Full Article at The Badger Herald
    Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
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Colgate professor previews book about atomic bomb
  1. It was definitely one of the best history lectures I’ve gone to; it was definitely more of a personal interpretation versus the straight-up historical facts
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
  2. The great crime of World War II, indeed, I think the great crime of the 20th century, was the decision made by someone, made by everyone, that noncombatants could be targeted from the air — an approach that rendered them particularly defenseless.
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
  3. Above all, I wish to argue that as bad as the atomic bomb was, the more significant threshold of terror had less to do with the weapon used to create it than its target
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
  4. It was almost more like a memoir than a straight-up historical interpretation.
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
  5. Shortly after the war ended, a poll indicated that the majority of Americans wished the war had gone on longer so the United States could use more atomic bombs against the Japanese
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
  6. I enjoyed the presentation because people in our generations have grown up with the idea that nuclear weapons are a special and separate type, and the historical perspective of the time was that it’s just more efficient, no more, no less
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago
  7. There seemed a logic, noble and less so, in the way that the bombed responded to their circumstances. … The experience of the bombed is important for the larger story of the war. It implies also sympathy for their plight
    SOURCE: The Badger Herald 26 months ago

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