![]() ![]() ![]() nhabitants of Cold War cities became accustomed to a more overt and permanent variant of the uncanny frisson felt before the bombing. But in the period of eerie suspension before the explosion, those who registered the nuclear uncanny in Hiroshima were also the first to experience a condition that would become familiar to everyone living in a targeted city during the Cold War. ![]() All these rumors responded to the citizens’ impression that their city had been in some way singled out, and the term bukimi - also meaning “ominous” or “uncanny” - spoke to the suspended question of whether Hiroshima and its inhabitants had been singled out for preservation or annihilation. During the summer of 1945, a series of rumors circulated in Hiroshima. While no one in Hiroshima knew ahead of time what would occur on August 6, 1945, many had noted the city’s eerie exemption from conventional bombardment and speculated as to reasons for it. Yet Lifton also records an expectant, premonitory atmosphere in Hiroshima in the weeks before the bombing, a compound of past experience and immediate perceptions that, while inadequate to “encompass” the eventual experience of the bomb, cannot simply be dismissed as speculation that found an accidental correlate in the nuclear event. Lifton’s work on the survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima focuses on the psychological aftermath of the bomb. ![]()
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