Children of the atomic bomb : an American physician's memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands / James N. Yamazaki with Louis B. Fleming
Foreword by John W. Dower -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Nagasaki -- Chapter 2. Born in America -- Chapter 3. Pearl Harbor's Impact -- Chapter 4. Love and War in 1944 -- Chapter 5. Homecoming and the Bomb -- Chapter 6. To Japan at Last -- Chapter 7. Getting Organized -- Chapter 8. The Thunderbolt -- Chapter 9. Expanding Research -- Chapter 10. Through Guileless Eyes -- Chapter 11. Lobbying and Researching -- Chapter 12. Emerging Answers -- Chapter 13. The Genetic Puzzle -- Chapter 14. Farewell in Hiroshima -- ""The Peacemaker"" -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Notes
Summary
Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki's account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician in Charge of the United States Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Nagasaki, Yamazaki had served as a combat surgeon at the Battle of the Bulge where he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans. In Japan he was confronted with violence of another dimension - the devastating impact of a nuclear blast and the particularly insidious effects of radiation on children. Yamazaki's story is also one of striking juxtapositions, an account of a Japanese-American's encounter with racism, the story of a man who fought for his country while his parents were interned in a concentration camp in Arkansas
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182)
