Hiroshima - The World's Bomb

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 For all those interested in the history of the atom bomb and its development! this goes beyond the controversy over the rights and wrongs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to show how the international community was implicated in the bomb's development and use. 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, Andrew J. Rotter, Charles Rotter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780192804372
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280437-2
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Atombombe, Atomwaffe