TY - BOOK ID - 337699 TI - After Hiroshima : the United States, race and nuclear weapons in Asia, 1945-1965 PY - 2010 SN - 9780521881005 9780511712197 9781107411487 9780511713002 0511713002 9780511715099 0511715099 9780511723148 0511723148 0511712197 9780231152785 0231152787 0521881005 1107211093 0511846746 1282576763 9786612576768 0511713835 0511716338 1107411483 9781107211094 9780511846748 9781282576766 6612576766 9780511713835 9780511716331 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History of Asia KW - History of North America KW - Polemology KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - anno 1960-1969 KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Asia KW - Race relations KW - Political aspects KW - 1945-1989 KW - Political aspects. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:337699 AB - By emphasising the role of nuclear issues, After Hiroshima, published in 2010, provides an original history of American policy in Asia between the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, Matthew Jones charts the development of American nuclear strategy and the foreign policy problems it raised, as the United States both confronted China and attempted to win the friendship of an Asia emerging from colonial domination. In underlining American perceptions that Asian peoples saw the possible repeat use of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of Western attitudes of 'white superiority', he offers new insights into the links between racial sensitivities and the conduct of US policy, and a fresh interpretation of the transition in American strategy from massive retaliation to flexible response in the era spanned by the Korean and Vietnam Wars. ER -