90 Seconds to Midnight

A Hiroshima Survivor's Nuclear Odyssey

Charlotte Jacobs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2025
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-630-5 (ISBN)

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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. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has lasted seven decades.

In 2015 Thurlow sparked a rallying cry for activists when she proclaimed at the United Nations, “Humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” With that, she shifted the global discussion from nuclear deterrence to humanitarian consequences, the key in crafting the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Regarded as the conscience of the antinuclear movement, Thurlow accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. With the fate of humanity at stake and with the resolve of her samurai ancestors, Thurlow challenged leaders of the nuclear-armed states. On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect, banning nuclear weapons under international law.

Critical historical events need a personal narrative, and Thurlow is such a storyteller for Hiroshima. 90 Seconds to Midnight recounts Thurlow’s ascent from the netherworld where she saw, heard, and smelled death and her relentless efforts to protect the world from an unspeakable fate. Knowing she would have to live with those nightmares, Thurlow turned them into a force to impel people across the globe to learn from Hiroshima, to admit that yes, it could happen again-and then to take action.

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.

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Note on Japanese Names

Prologue

Part 1. Before

1. The Heart of a Samurai

2. A Cherry Blossom Life

3. Raising the Flag of the Rising Sun

4. August 6, 1945

Part 2. After

5. Necropolis

6. Life among the Ruins

7. Occupied

8. Where Was God on August 6?

9. Born to Serve

10. Falling in Love in Bibai

Part 3. The Quest

11. Crossing Borders

12. Blood on Our Hands

13. In the Interim

14. Witness

15. Watchman

16. Indifference Is Not an Option

17. Reframing the Narrative

18. Point of No Return

19. Confronting Truman

20. Moving toward Zero

21. Moral Indignation

22. Glory

23. The Road to Ratification

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Zusatzinfo	19 photos, 1 map, index
Verlagsort	Dulles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-64012-630-9 / 1640126309
ISBN-13	978-1-64012-630-5 / 9781640126305
Zustand	Neuware