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Hiroshima - The World's Bomb (Paperback)
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Hiroshima - The World's Bomb (Paperback)
Series: Making of the Modern World
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Discovery Miles 4 810
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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 1945 and had
been practised on numerous occasions by both sides during the
Second World War. Moreover, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was
conceived and built by an international community of scientists,
not just by the Americans. Other nations (including Japan and
Germany) were also developing atomic bombs in the first half of the
1940s, albeit hapharzardly. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any
combatant nation foregoing the use of the bomb during the war had
it been able to obtain one. The international team of scientists
organized by the Americans just got there first. As this
fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by a US pilot that
hot August morning in 1945 was in many ways the world's offspring,
in both a technological and a moral sense. And it was the world
that would have to face its consequences, strategically,
diplomatically, and culturally, in the years ahead.
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