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UNINA9910817615303321 |
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Autore |
Rotter Andrew Jon |
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Titolo |
Hiroshima : the world's bomb / / Andrew J. Rotter |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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1-281-34133-9 |
9786611341336 |
0-19-151687-2 |
1-4356-4252-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Collana |
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Making of the modern world |
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Disciplina |
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355.8/251190904 |
940.542521954 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-355) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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