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Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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In this two part article Yuki Tanaka and Peter Kuznick explore the relationship between the atomic bombing of Japan and that nation's embrace of nuclear power, a relationship that may be entering a new phase with the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima.

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Footnotes

A Japanese translation by Noa Matsushita is available here: http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/2011/05/peter-kuznick-japans-nuclear-history-in.html