Hiroshima - The World's Bomb

Zusatztext Sagacious and impeccably researched. Informationen zum Autor Andrew J. Rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University. He has written extensively on US-Asian relations during the twentieth century, including The Path to Vietnam. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima 1: The World's Atom 2: Great Britain: Refugees, Air Power, and the Possibility of the Bomb 3: Japan and Germany: The Doomsday Scenario 4: The United States: Imagining and Building the Bomb 5: The United States, II: Using the Bomb 6: Japan: The Atomic Bombs, and War's End 7: The Bomb, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 8: The World's Bomb: Strategy, Culture, and Ethics, 1945-2000 Epilogue: The Bomb in the 21st Century

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Rotter, Andrew J. Rotter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2009
• EAN: 9780199569762
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956976-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Making of the Modern World; The Making of the Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book