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Hiroshima : the world's bomb /

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 twen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rotter, Andrew Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Colección:Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.