Hiroshima : the world's bomb /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rotter, Andrew Jon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Atomic bomb > History.
Bombe atomique > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Atomic bomb
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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