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Robert Jay Lifton, MD

JAMA. 1985;254(5):631-632.

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WE DO not quite know what to do with Hiroshima. The fact that it stands at all today, and is a thriving city, has to do with the very "small" weapon, compared with those in present nuclear arsenals, dropped on it in 1945. Yet we know that Hiroshima, and Nagasaki too, have much to teach us still. A few vignettes of my own encounters in Hiroshima may suggest the kind of knowledge that city can convey to us.

The first lesson I learned in Hiroshima, psychologically speaking, was that no one had studied it. I had been naive enough to believe that some individual or group would have looked at the impact on survivors of a weapon everyone knew to have brought about a tragic turning point in human history. But although there had been considerable work on physical aftereffects, psychological consequences had been ignored. On subsequently reflecting on that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

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