{"product_id":"nagasaki-life-after-nuclear-war-9780285643826","title":"Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn August 9th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.  It killed a third of the population instantly, and the survivors, or hibakusha, would be affected by the life-altering medical conditions caused by the radiation for the rest of their lives. They were also marked with the stigma of their exposure to radiation, and fears of the consequences for their children.  Nagasaki follows the previously unknown stories of five survivors and their families, from 1945 to the present day. It captures the full range of pain, fear, bravery and compassion unleashed by the destruction of a city.  Susan Southard has interviewed the hibakusha over many years and her intimate portraits of their lives show the consequences of nuclear war. Nagasaki tells the neglected story of life after nuclear war and will help shape public debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.  Published for the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, this is the first study to be based on eye-witness accounts of Nagasaki in the style of John Hersey's Hiroshima.        On   August 9th, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a 5-tonne   plutonium bomb was dropped on the small, coastal city of Nagasaki. The   explosion destroyed factories, shops and homes and killed 74,000 people while   injuring another 75,000. The two atomic bombs marked the end of a global war   but for the tens of thousands of survivors it was the beginning of a new life   marked with the stigma of being hibakusha (atomic bomb-affected people).   Susan Southard has spent a decade interviewing and researching the lives of   the hibakusha, raw, emotive eye-witness accounts, which reconstruct the days,   months and years after the bombing, the isolation of their hospitalisation   and recovery, the difficulty of re-entering daily life and the enduring impact   of life as the only people in history who have lived through a nuclear attack   and its aftermath. Following five teenage survivors from 1945 to the present   day Southard unveils the lives they have led, their injuries in the   annihilation of the bomb, the dozens of radiation-related cancers and   illnesses they have suffered, the humiliating and frightening choices about   marriage they were forced into as a result of their fears of the genetic   diseases that may be passed through their families for generations to come.   The power of Nagasaki lies in the detail of the survivors' stories, as deaths   continued for decades because of the radiation contamination, which caused   various forms of cancer. Intimate and compassionate, while being grounded in   historical research Nagasaki reveals the censorship that kept the suffering   endured by the hibakusha hidden around the world. For years after the   bombings news reports and scientific research were censored by U.S.   occupation forces and the U.S. government led an efficient campaign to   justify the necessity and morality of dropping the bombs. As we pass the   seventieth anniversary of the only atomic bomb attacks in history Susan   Southard captures the full range of pain, fear, bravery and compassion   unleashed by the destruction of a city. The personal stories of those who   survived beneath the mushroom clouds will transform the abstract perception   of nuclear war into a visceral human experience. Nagasaki tells the neglected   story of life after nuclear war and will help shape public discussion and   debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Souvenir Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978870886566,"sku":"9780285643826","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/nagasaki-life-after-nuclear-war-9780285643826-31957204598962.jpg?v=1656109241","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/nagasaki-life-after-nuclear-war-9780285643826","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}