Henry Kissinger, who formerly served as United States Secretary of State, will turn 100 on May 27th.As a witness to the thaw in China-US relations, Kissinger is an indispensable figure in the history of China-US relations.In 1971, the 48-year-old US National Security Advisor paid a secret...
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki appear not to be the result of one large explosion, but rather the result of a fire-bombing campaign comparable in pictures to Tokyo’s fire-bombed remains. Hiroshima and Nagasaki also never experienced anything like the hundreds or thousands of years of...
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki represent a historical break that can be understood from a social psychological position as a collective trauma of the ‘‘generic identity’’. The ‘‘peaceful use of nuclear power’’ served as an ‘‘integration ideology of the 1950s’’ and ...
Even Washington's allies aren't immune to its coercive diplomacy. To eliminate Japan's economic threat, Washington compelled the country to sign the "Plaza Accord" in 1985, forcing the yen to appreciate, which led to the rapid expansion of the East Asian state's domestic economic bubble, the...
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“Tourism in Japan is at an all-time high, so you should definitely expect to encounter larger crowds and longer wait times. This is especially true for popular destinations like Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto; however, this can also be felt to some extent in smaller cities such as Hiroshima, Ko...
The book shows a world in which persuasion has become coercion on every level, backed by the powerful arm of a state that has stripped the populace of any individuality, conscience, privacy, or civil liberties. Whatever you think of Trump, I wanted to point out the subtle (or not so subt...
The preference–approval disjuncture posited in our first set of hypotheses is immediately apparent in the control condition: while only 27 percent of the Chinese respondents report that they would prefer using nuclear weapons in the hypothetical conflict scenario, 54 percent state that they would ...
There is a wide range. Over 70,000 people are estimated to have died immediately when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima. Thousands of others later died due to poisoning from the radiation. Tactical nuclear weapons, by design, do not have as much radioactive fallout, since they are used against a...
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