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failed to understand that American occupiers had no intention of elevating Nagasaki to the ‘superior’ atomic bomb city. In May 1959, a year after the atomic ruins of Urakami Cathedral were demolished to reconstruct the city into a modern and international city and to develop ‘peaceful’ relations with the US, the Vatican raised the status of Nagasaki from diocese to archdiocese. Nagasaki lost to Hiroshima in the competition over the status of the atomic bomb city and the most remarkable atomic bomb ruins; in turn, Diehl notes, the city ‘gained the status among international Catholic cities as the expense of the city’s atomic memory’ (162, emphasis added). Resurrecting Nagasaki is an important book for anyone who is interested in nuclear history, US–Japan relations, US public diplomacy and urban studies.