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China’s nuclear project gets judicious treatment in John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, China Builds the Bomb (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988). Other sources include Ming Zhang, China’s Changing Nuclear Posture: Reaction to the South Asian Nuclear Tests (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1:999); Rana Mitter, A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); and Mark Oliphant, ‘Over Pots of Tea: Excerpts from a Diary of a Visit to China’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 22/5 (May 1966), 36-43.
The book to know on India’s (and South Asia’s) atomic aspirations is George Perkovich, India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999). Supplement Perkovich with Itty Abraham, The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Security, and the Postcolonial State (London: Zed Books, 1998); Karsten Frey, India’s Nuclear Bomb and National Security (London: Routledge, 2006); Andrew J. Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947—1964 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000); Ashok Kapur, India’s Nuclear Option: Atomic Diplomacy and Decision Making (New York: Praeger, 1976); and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, ‘India: The Nuclear Politics of Self-Esteem’, Current History (Dec. 1998), 403-6.
The worldwide movement against nuclear weapons is thoroughly chronicled in Lawrence S. Wittner’s three-volume study The Struggle against the Bomb, published by Stanford University Press: i. One World or None, takes the story through 1953 (published 1993); ii. Resisting the Bomb, covers the period 1954— 1:970 (1997); and iii. Toward Nuclear Abolition, runs from 1971 to 2002 (2003). See also Frances B. McCrea and Gerald E. Markle, Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons Protest in America (Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989). Essays by Mohandas Gandhi, Wilfred Burchett, Albert Camus, and other opponents of nuclear weapons and the arms race are included in Bird and Lifschultz, Hiroshima’s Shadow. On the morality of atomic weapons, consult Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, and The Collected Philosophical Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, iii. Ethics, Religion, and Politics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1981).
Finally, a few good collections of writing on the bomb. In addition to the Bird and Lifschultz, Bernstein, Hasegawa, and Hogan volumes cited above, see Shane J. Maddock, ed. The Nuclear Age (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2001); Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds. Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997); and, with emphasis on the ill-starred 1995 Smithsonian exhibition on the atomic bomb, Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Englehardt, eds., History Wars: The ‘Enola Gay’ and Other Battles for the American Past (New York: Henry Holt, 1996).
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IMAGES
Brookhaven National Laboratory: 8; Corbis: 1, 3, 13, 14; Empics: 12; Weimar Archive/Mary Evans Picture Library: 2; AFP/Getty Images: 11; Getty Images: 9; Hulton Archive/Getty Images: 5; Time Life Pictures/Getty Images: 7, 16; Los Alamos National Laboratory: 10; Marilyn Silverstone/Magnum: 18; National Archives/Double Delta Industries, Inc.: 4; The Harry Charles Kelly Papers, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries: 6; A. lu Semenov: 17; Joe O’Donnell/Vanderbilt University Press: 15.
POETRY
Haiku by Genshi Fujikawa, Nobuyuki Okada, and Isami Sasaki from The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki edited by Kyoko & Mark Selden (M E Sharpe, Armonk NY, 1989), reprinted by permission of the publishers.
Sadako Kurihara: ‘Ruins’ from When We Say ‘Hiroshima’ Selected Poems by Kurihara Sadako translated by Richard H Minear (Center for Japanese Studies, University of