Hiroshima [[electronic resource] ] : the world's bomb / / Andrew J. Rotter

• Autore: Rotter Andrew Jon
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.8/251190904
• Soggetto topico: Atomic bomb - History
• 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.: 9910778237403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)