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HIROSHIMA AND THE END OF HUMAN INNOCENCE: THE DAY ONE AIRPLANE CHANGED POLITICS FOREVER

著者： Peter Kriger
ナレーター： Neil A. Wexler
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 On the morning of August 6, 1945, a single aircraft with most of its guns removed flew over a city of three hundred thousand people, and twelve men aboard it did something that would previously have required an army, a year, and the sustained cooperation of a nation.That is the change worth understanding. Not the physics. Not the mushroom cloud, which has been photographed into meaninglessness. The change is that the number of people who had to agree fell from a society to a room, and no political system on earth has been redesigned to account for it.This book takes seriously a question we have spent eighty years agreeing not to ask: why does it matter how a person is killed? We built an elaborate architecture of law and horror around one method and left every other method almost entirely unregulated. A weapon that makes a soldier cry is banned by treaty. A weapon that removes his legs is procurement. We have written the most detailed rules in human history about method, and almost nothing about the thing itself.And underneath that runs the question nobody in eighty years has funded seriously. If the object of a war is to stop people rather than to end them, why has the technology of stopping without killing received less money in its entire institutional life than a single aircraft carrier costs to build? The answer is not that it cannot be done. The answer is more uncomfortable, and it involves logistics, doctrine, and the awkward fact that a corpse requires no water, no guards, and no paperwork.Written with wit, warmth, and an entirely unsentimental eye, this is a book about how one morning changed the arithmetic of power, and about the road that was available the whole time and was never taken. It ends where the reader may not expect, which is not with the bomb at all.©2026 Peter Kriger (P)2026 Boris Kriger
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