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Fire in the Sky - The Story of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
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Fire in the Sky - The Story of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
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In the summer of 1945, the world was introduced to the horrific
consequences of nuclear warfare. On the sixth day of August, an
American B-29 bomber dropped a revolutionary new weapon, the atomic
bomb, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The catastrophic
detonation instantly killed over 100,000 residents of the city,
with thousands more dying from explosion-related injuries in the
months and years to follow. Three days later, a second nuclear
weapon was released over the skies of Nagasaki, killing over 40,000
Japanese citizens, most of whom were civilians. Six days after the
second nuclear attack, the Empire of Japan surrendered, and World
War II was ended. Jubilation among the Allied countries was
tempered by a profound sense of relief; nearly four years of bloody
war had finally come to an end. Some 406,000 Americans died during
World War II, while another 671,000 were wounded. By the end of the
war, an astonishing one out of every one hundred thirty six
Americans had been killed or wounded in the fighting. American
military personnel, along with their spouses, children, parents,
and friends, were eager to see the bloody conflict come to and end,
by any means possible. Consequently, President Harry Truman's
decision to utilize the atomic bomb to bring Japan to its knees was
wildly popular in the weeks and months that followed the Japanese
surrender. In the six plus decades since Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
however, many have questioned both the necessity and morality of
America's deployment of the bomb. Significantly influenced by
revisionist history, passionate debate has focused on the
justification for nuclear warfare to subdue an enemy already
nearing defeat. Like so many other momentous events, the reader
must balance the reality of the world in 1945 against the seemingly
clearer prism of revisionist history. Fire in the Sky: The Story of
the Atomic Bomb chronicles the development and use of the first
atomic bombs. This is a remarkable story about the lives and times
of the brilliant scientists, seasoned military officers, and
determined government leaders, who reshaped history, and
irrevocably changed the dynamics of warfare.
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