Articulations of the Nuclear

Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age. Edited by Stephan Köhn and Katharina Hülsmann.

The 16 contributions examine the various forms of articulation of nuclear power - and the various actors involved from the early post-war period to the present day. They attempt to work out that the peaceful and the destructive power of the atom are two sides of the same coin. The triple disaster at Fukushima in 2011 made this all too clear and ultimately exposed the national myth of nuclear safety that had lulled post-war Japanese society into a false sense of security. A thorough reexamination of Japan's nuclear fallacy is needed now more than ever. VIII,382 Seiten mit 26 Abb. und drei Tabellen, broschiert (Kulturwissenschaftliche Japanstudien; Band 13/Harrassowitz 2024) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear