Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter.
Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N355.82511/ 10
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Language
English
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Physical content
371 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The world's atom -- Great Britain : refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb -- Japan and Germany : paths not taken -- The United States I : imagining and building the bomb -- The United States II : using the bomb -- Japan : the atomic bombs and war's end -- The Soviet Union : the bomb a...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2008.
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Summary
"The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of fundamental and sobering truths about the development of this fearsome weapon."
"As this new history shows, the bomb dropped by a US pilot that hot August morning in 1945 was in many ways the world's offspring, in both a technological and a moral sense. The race to create and deploy the atom bomb was international, and the consequences of that race are carried by the whole world to this day."--BOOK JACKET....
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Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter.
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Making of the modern world.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-355) and index.
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N355.82511/ 10
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74VM8p2z6bzX
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ISBN
9780192804372 (hbk.)
DDC
355.8251190904
MMS ID
991000036949702626
