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Five Days in August - How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Five Days in August - How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Loot Price R503
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Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the
two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days
in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the
military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary
strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the
surrender as the Japanese were by the attack, and that not only had
experts planned and fully anticipated the need for a third bomb,
they were skeptical about whether the atomic bomb would work at
all. With these ideas, Michael Gordin reorients the historical and
contemporary conversation about the A-bomb and World War II. Five
Days in August explores these and countless other legacies of the
atomic bomb in a glaring new light. Daring and iconoclastic, it
will result in far-reaching discussions about the significance of
the A-bomb, about World War II, and about the moral issues they
have spawned.
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