Andrew J. Rotter (, Charles A. Dana Professor, Department of Histor

Hiroshima

The World's Bomb

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Making of the Modern World
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9780199569762
• ISBN-10: 0199569762
• Artikelnr.: 26218449

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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