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Hiroshima, Nagasaki : the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath  Cover Image Book Book

Hiroshima, Nagasaki : the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath / Paul Ham.

Ham, Paul (Author).

Summary:

In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781250047113 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1250047110 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: ix, 629 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, [2014]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-601) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The Target Committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional surrender -- Trinity -- Potsdam -- Mokusatsu -- Summer 1945 -- Tinian Island -- Augusta -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Invasion -- Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Surrender -- Reckoning -- Hibakusha -- Why -- Dead heat.
Subject: Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Moral and ethical aspects.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Moral and ethical aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : (1945)
Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Japan : (1945)
World War (1939-1945)
Atomic bomb > Government policy.
Atomic bomb victims.
Ethics.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Japan > Nagasaki-shi.
United States
Genre: History.

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  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Nola Brantley Memorial Library / Warner Robins.

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