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    Remembering the Atomic Bomb in its Birthplace, New Mexico by Lucie Genay

    Published 2017-01-01
    “…On July 16, 1945 the « Land of Enchantment » acquired a new identity as the cradle of the nuclear age when the world’s first atomic bomb exploded in the Jornada del Muerto desert. …”
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    Le Roman de l’Uranium by Hugues Chabot

    Published 2015-12-01
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    Up from the Depths: The Cultural Appropriation of Godzilla in 1970s American Animation and Comics by C. Scott Maravilla

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…In this case, Marvel and Hanna-Barbera removed the character from its origin, where it emerged as a consequence of the atomic bomb. Gojira is first a scourge of Japan and later its savior against invasion from cosmic forces and nefarious <i>kaiju</i>. …”
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    Genesis of a Poetics of Silence by Enora Lessinger

    Published 2018-11-01
    “…This short story prefigures very clearly Ishiguro’s later novels, and deals with themes dear to him: memory, family, trauma and guilt, the atomic bomb as an absent centre. It also presents a very clear picture of the genesis of his writing style, centred around a poetics of silence, both at the diegetic and narratorial levels.…”
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    The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960 by Charles Armstrong

    Published 2010-12-01
    “…The physical destruction and loss of life on both sides was almost beyond comprehension, but the North suffered the greater damage, due to American saturation bombing and the scorched-earth policy of the retreating UN forces.1 The US Air Force estimated that North Korea's destruction was proportionately greater than that of Japan in the Second World War, where the US had turned 64 major cities to rubble and used the atomic bomb to destroy two others. American planes dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea -- that is, essentially on North Korea --including 32,557 tons of napalm, compared to 503,000 tons of bombs dropped in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II.2 The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war's end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. …”
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    Current Evidence for Developmental, Structural, and Functional Brain Defects following Prenatal Radiation Exposure by Tine Verreet, Mieke Verslegers, Roel Quintens, Sarah Baatout, Mohammed A. Benotmane

    Published 2016-01-01
    “…One of the major goals in the radioprotection field is to better understand the potential health risk posed to the unborn child after radiation exposure to the pregnant mother, of which the first convincing evidence came from epidemiological studies on in utero exposed atomic bomb survivors. In the following years, animal models have proven to be an essential tool to further characterize brain developmental defects and consequent functional deficits. …”
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