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Weapons for victory : the Hiroshima decision / Robert James Maddox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maddox, Robert James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atomic bomb--History.
- Atomic bomb.
- Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan).
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Missouri ; London : University of Missouri Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay released an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9 another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Fifty years have passed since these catastrophic events, and the bombings still remain highly controversial. The official justification for using these weapons was that they prevented enormous losses on both sides by avoiding an Allied invasion of Japan. Many diplomatic historians, however, have asserted that the bombings were unnecessary. One extreme argument is that Truman knew the Japanese were ready to surrender but wanted to use the bombs to intimidate the Soviet Union. Robert Maddox examines all these claims in Weapons for Victory as he strives to dispel the many myths that have been accepted as fact. In addition to Maddox's valuable recasting of the circumstances leading to the bombings, he also confronts the proposed Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit with careful historical analysis.
- Contents:
- The legacy of unconditional surrender
- Taking control
- Consideration of the bomb and preparations for the summit
- Advice and dissent
- Countdown
- Potsam: nearing Armageddon
- Japan unbowed
- Atom bombs and the end of the war
- A retrospect.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1995. With new introd.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826274335
- 0826274331
- OCLC:
- 624428316
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