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Books on Nuclear Disarmament

11 books — 2 voters

The Lucifer Effect by Philip G. Zimbardo

The Untold History of The United States by Oliver Stone

Hiroshima in America by Robert Jay Lifton

The Outline of History, Vol. 1 by H.G. Wells

Books Mentioned in Hiroshima

10 books — 1 voter

Assault by Fire by Hunter Ripley Rawlings

Nuclear War, Nuclear Attack and World War Three Books

79 books — 17 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Barefoot Gen, Volume Two by Keiji Nakazawa

The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino

Remember Hiroshima

41 books — 27 voters

Barefoot Gen, Volume One by Keiji Nakazawa

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

34 books — 12 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Fictitious Japan

204 books — 38 voters

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“ ¡Qué ben, que a bomba ven co seu rebombio! A bomba, ¡bong!, a bomba, bon amigo, A bomba con aramios, con formigas, con fornos pra asar meniños loiros. A bomba ten lombrices, bombardinos, vermes de luz, bombillas fluorescentes, peixes de chumbo, vómitos, anémonas, estrelas de plutonio plutocrático, esterco de cobalto hidroxenado, martelos, ferraduras, matarratos. A bomba, bong. A bomba, bon amigo. Con átomos que estoupan en cadeia e creban as cadeias que nos atan: Os outos edificios. Os outos f ...more ”
― Celso Emilio Ferreiro, O Soño Sulagado

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“ It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Pers It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. (I used to love the detail that Hampshire's 'New Forest' is so called because it was only planted for the hunt in the late eleventh century.) I remember watching with my father and brother through the fence of Stanstead House, the Sussex mansion of the Earl of Bessborough, one evening in the early 1960s, and seeing an immense golden meadow carpeted entirely by grazing rabbits. I'll never keep that quiet, or be that still, again. This was around the time of countrywide protest against the introduction of a horrible laboratory-confected disease, named 'myxomatosis,' into the warrens of old England to keep down the number of nibbling rodents. Richard Adams's lapine masterpiece Watership Down is the remarkable work that it is, not merely because it evokes the world of hedgerows and chalk-downs and streams and spinneys better than anything since The Wind in the Willows, but because it is only really possible to imagine gassing and massacre and organized cruelty on this ancient and green and gently rounded landscape if it is organized and carried out against herbivores. ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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