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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The international history of the development of the atomic bomb, its first use against Japan, and the Cold War nuclear arms race that it gave rise to. - ;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. The principle of killing thousands of enemy civilians from the air was already well established by

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-34133-9

9786611341336

0-19-151687-2

1-4356-4252-X

OCLC:

476242200