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Area of study: Belonging
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Extension 1: Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1: After the Bomb
- This issue of Time from 1985 called The atomic age contains four 'perspectives on a reality' of what occurred on and after August 6, 1945.
What the boy saw: A fire in the sky
The first view is that of a survivor of the bombing in Hiroshima who became the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.What the physicist saw: A mystic world
The second view is that of a physicist who witnessed the first successful nuclear chain-reation experiment and worked on the bomb at the Los Alamos laboratory.What the President saw: A nation coming into its own
The third view is that of a US President who saw a revolution in world politics and the nature of the presidency.What the people saw: A vision of ourselves
The fourth is a view of how the bomb affected American thought and culture.
- This article discusses atomic testing in the Pacific and the ramifications of a nuclear future.
Your last chance, Pix magazine, 1946.
- There are several free downloadable movies available on the Internet Archive, the sites and instructions for downloading are in this document.
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