EAN: 9783447121996

ARTICULATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR KARTONIERT (TB)

The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9  1945 marked the
beginning of a new era: the atomic age. Nuclear power has always been an extremely sensitive
matter in Japan  and this is hardly surprising given that the Japanese and  subsequently 
American government censored information regarding its destructive power. So  while "evil"
energy was successfully consigned to oblivion until the end of the allied occupation in 1952 
"good" energy was enthusiastically encouraged by the government one short year later in the
wake of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous Atoms for Peace-speech. Needless to say that
the discursive division of the atom led to a division in society: on the one hand  those who
were still suffering from the consequences of the bomb and on the other  those who were now
striving for a new  comfortable middle-class life. The contributions examine the various forms
of articulation of nuclear power - and the various actors involved from the early post-war
period to the present day. They attempt to work out that the peaceful and the destructive power
of the atom are two sides of the same coin. The triple disaster at Fukushima in 2011 made this
all too clear and ultimately exposed the national myth of nuclear safety that had lulled
post-war Japanese society into a false sense of security. A thorough reexamination of Japan's
nuclear fallacy is needed now more than ever.

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