EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Japan and the U.S.

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
The explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima is one of the pivotal moments in 20th century United States and Japanese history. Controversies at the Smithsonian Institution, conflicts in Japan about survivors and nuclear technologies, and media coverage of the tensions between the U.S., North Korea, and Iraq testify to the continuing cultural and social impact of the bomb seventy years later. This course will focus on the moral, ideological and historical complexity of the atomic bomb during World War II, and subsequent cultural responses in both Japan and the United States as people learned to live with the bomb.