Charlotte Jacobs

90 Seconds to Midnight

A Hiroshima Survivor's Nuclear Odyssey

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Produktbeschreibung

90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a thirteen-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb, and her ensuing quest to rid the world of nuclear weapons.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640126305
• ISBN-10: 1640126309
• Artikelnr.: 71572385

Autorenporträt

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations, Notes on Japanese Names
Prologue
 
Part I: Before
Chapter 1. The Heart of a Samurai
Chapter 2. A Cherry Blossom Life
Chapter 3. Raising the Flag of the Rising Sun
Chapter 4. August 6, 1945
 
Part II: After
Chapter 5. Necropolis
Chapter 6. Life Among the Ruins
Chapter 7. Occupied
Chapter 8. Where Was God on August 6?
Chapter 9. Born to Serve
Chapter 10. Falling in Love in Bibai
 
Part III: The Quest
Chapter 11. Crossing Borders
Chapter 12. Blood on Our Hands
Chapter 13. In the Interim
Chapter 14. Witness
Chapter 15. Watchman
Chapter 16. Indifference Is Not an Option
Chapter 17. Reframing the Narrative
Chapter 18. The Point of No Return
Chapter 19. Confronting Truman
Chapter 20. Moving Toward Zero
Chapter 21. The Nerve of Moral Indignation
Chapter 22. Glory
Chapter 23. The Road to Ratification
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index