9/26/11
Talk On Tokyo & Hiroshima Bombings Oct. 3 At SLU
CANTON - Andrew Rotter, Dana Professor of History at Colgate University, will give a talk titled "Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945" on Monday, October 3, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall (Room 218) at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Author of Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (2008), Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964 (2000), The Path to Vietnam (1987) and numerous articles and reviews, Rotter is former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
In his talk, Rotter will analyze the question of the nuclear threshold, or the extent to which policymakers and scientists saw themselves as doing something absolutely different by dropping atomic bombs, their capacity for self-delusion and the controversial claim that the earlier threshold to bomb civilians was in some sense a bigger turning point than dropping nuclear weapons.
More: Andrew Rotter's website
