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—115. See also Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, ed., The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), including state-of-the-art essays by Hasegawa, Bernstein, Frank, and others; Edwin P Hoyt, Hirohito: The Emperor and the Man (New York: Praeger, 1992); Sadao Asada, ‘The Shock of the Atomic Bomb and Japan’s Decision to Surrender: A Reconsideration’, Pacific Historical Review, 68/4 (Nov 1998), 477—512; Pacific War Research Society, Japan’s Longest Day (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1980); Yukiko Koshiro, ‘Eurasian Eclipse: Japan’s End Game in World War II’, American Historical Review, 109/2 (Apr. 2004), 417—44; and books by Hasegawa, Frank, and Sigal.

Statistical information about the victims of the atomic bombs is contained in the US Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1946); Ashley W. Oughterson and Shields Warren, eds. Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan (New York: McGraw Hill, 1956); Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings, trans. Eisei Ishikawa and David L. Swain (New York: Basic Books, 1981); and I. Shigematsu, C. Ito, N. Kamada, M. Akiyama, and H. Sasaki, Effects of A-Bomb Radiation on the Human Body, trans. B. Harrison (Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995).

Regarding the management of memory of the bomb (and the war) in occupied Japan, see Monica Braw, The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Japan, 1945—1949 (Lund, Sweden: Liber, 1986); John W Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: W. W Norton, 1999); Yoshikuni Igarashi, Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945—1970 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000); and Naoko Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SOVIET UNION: THE BOMB AND THE COLD WAR

The impact of nuclear weapons on American culture is assessed in Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (New York: Pantheon, 1985); Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988); Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold Wjr, 2nd edn. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,

1996 [1991]); and Allan M. Winkler, Life under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). For the international reaction to the bombings and their aftermath, the pickings are rather slimmer; consult national newspapers. Australia is covered in Prue Torney-Parlicki, ‘ “Whatever the Thing May Be Called”: The Australian News Media and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’, Australian Historical Studies, 31 /114 (Apr. 2000), 49— 66; for Mexico, see Regis Cabral, ‘The Mexican Reactions to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Tragedies of 1945’, Quipu, 4/1 (Jan.-Apr. 1987), 81—118; a short but instructive piece on France is E. L. De Saint-Just, ‘La Bombe atomique met entre les mains de l’homme une force qui peut le detruire’, La Patrie du Dimanche, 12 Aug. 1945.

The literature on the Cold War generally deserves a bibliography of its own. For a quick primer, with reference to the atomic bomb, see John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982); Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War (New York: Penguin, 1990 [1977]); Thomas Paterson, On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War, rev. edn. (New York: Norton, 1992); Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,

1992); Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); and Walter LaFeber,