LEADER 02950nam 22006734a 450 001 9910451518303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-34133-9 010 $a9786611341336 010 $a0-19-151687-2 010 $a1-4356-4252-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483531 035 $a(EBL)415404 035 $a(OCoLC)476242200 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001038315 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12439169 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001038315 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11050502 035 $a(PQKB)10492822 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11152174 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10110660 035 $a(PQKB)10833412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415404 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10218552 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL134133 035 $a(OCoLC)437093661 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483531 100 $a20071030d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHiroshima$b[electronic resource] $ethe world's bomb /$fAndrew J. Rotter 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 225 1 $aMaking of the modern world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-956976-2 311 $a0-19-280437-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [310]-355) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe international history of the development of the atomic bomb, its first use against Japan, and the Cold War nuclear arms race that it gave rise to. - ;The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of fundamental and sobering truths about the development of this fearsome weapon. The principle of killing thousands of enemy civilians from the air was already well established by 410 0$aMaking of the modern world (Oxford University Press) 606 $aAtomic bomb$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAtomic bomb$xHistory. 676 $a355.8/251190904 700 $aRotter$b Andrew Jon$0933481 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451518303321 996 $aHiroshima$92101419 997 $aUNINA