Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotter, Andrew Jon.

Series:

Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)

Making of the modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--History.

Atomic bomb.

History.

Physical Description:

371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

The American decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 was one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. Yet, as this new history shows, the first atom bomb was not just an American invention. 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.

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 and the Cold War

The world's bomb

Epilogue : nightmares and hopes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-355) and index.

ISBN:

9780192804372

0192804375

OCLC:

176924534