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Autore: |
Rotter Andrew Jon
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Titolo: |
Hiroshima [[electronic resource] ] : the world's bomb / / Andrew J. Rotter
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355.8/251190904 |
Soggetto topico: | Atomic bomb - History |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-355) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hiroshima ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-34133-9 |
9786611341336 | |
0-19-151687-2 | |
1-4356-4252-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451518303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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