02944nam 22006854a 450 991081761530332120240418142627.01-281-34133-997866113413360-19-151687-21-4356-4252-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 the world's bomb /Andrew J. Rotter1st ed.Oxford ;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 bombHistoryAtomic bombHistory.355.8/251190904940.542521954Rotter Andrew Jon1714544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817615303321Hiroshima4108469UNINA