When you watch the U.S. military officers in White Light, Black Rain, reflect on their participation in the atomic bomb operations, what elements or theories from the course have you learned that can make critical sense of how they act, speak and feel or not feel? (Use, for example, Kathleen Barry’s writings. How are their responses problematized by what by John Dower’s War Without Mercy? Use the relevant sources and theories to analyze their responses and how their nationally, gendered and racially bound forms of identification are manifest through their responses?
