Title Weapons for victory : the Hiroshima decision fifty years later / Robert James Maddox

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [1995] ©1995

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Description 215 pages ; 24 cm Summary On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay released an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9 another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Fifty years have passed since these catastrophic events, and the bombings still remain highly controversial. The official justification for using these weapons was that they prevented enormous losses on both sides by avoiding an Allied invasion of Japan. Many diplomatic historians, however, have asserted that the bombings were unnecessary. One extreme argument is that Truman knew the Japanese were ready to surrender but wanted to use the bombs to intimidate the Soviet Union. Robert Maddox examines all these claims in Weapons for Victory as he strives to dispel the many myths that have been accepted as fact. In addition to Maddox's valuable recasting of the circumstances leading to the bombings, he also confronts the proposed Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit with careful historical analysis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index Subject Atomic bomb -- History. Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. SUBJECT Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738 Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157 USSR http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312 -- Foqeign relations -- United States USSR -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763 United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115 United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379 LC no. 95020129 ISBN 0826210376 (alk. paper)

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