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ast-full-width ast-article-post ast-width-md-12 ast-archive-post" id="post-31662" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- blog-layout-2 ast-article-inner ast-no-date-box"> <div class="post-content ast-width-md-6"> <h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240816202351/https://apjjf.org/2023/12/zwigenberg" rel="bookmark">Beyond the “Empire of Trauma“: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a></h2> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text"> <div class="astra-advanced-hook-31289 "> <div style="text-transform:uppercase" class="taxonomy-contributor has-link-color wp-elements-4b684ae43c01bd15499bce253593ad80 wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-ast-global-color-2-color has-small-font-size"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240816202351/https://apjjf.org/authors/view/14988" rel="tag">Ran Zwigenberg</a></div> </div> <div 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