02950nam 22006734a 450 991045151830332120200520144314.01-281-34133-997866113413360-19-151687-21-4356-4252-X(CKB)1000000000483531(EBL)415404(OCoLC)476242200(SSID)ssj0001038315(PQKBManifestationID)12439169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001038315(PQKBWorkID)11050502(PQKB)10492822(SSID)ssj0000171348(PQKBManifestationID)11152174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171348(PQKBWorkID)10110660(PQKB)10833412(MiAaPQ)EBC415404(Au-PeEL)EBL415404(CaPaEBR)ebr10218552(CaONFJC)MIL134133(OCoLC)437093661(EXLCZ)99100000000048353120071030d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHiroshima[electronic resource] the world's bomb /Andrew J. RotterOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (384 p.)Making of the modern worldDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-956976-2 0-19-280437-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-355) and index.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.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 Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)Atomic bombHistoryElectronic books.Atomic bombHistory.355.8/251190904Rotter Andrew Jon933481MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451518303321Hiroshima2101419UNINA