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Author:

Rotter, Andrew Jon.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, [4], 371 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Atomic bomb--History.
Nuclear weapons--History.--History.
Nuclear warfare--History.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
Arms race.
Cold War.

Notes:

"First published in paperback 2009"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-339) and index.

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.

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"--P. [4] of cover.

Series:

Making of the modern world

ISBN:

0199569762 (pbk.)
9780199569762 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317473128

LCCN:

2010286047

Locations:

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)