| Description |
ix, 629 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates. : illustrations (some color), color maps., portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language [the Japanese] seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true." |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Also available in electronic version via the internet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-601) and index |
| Notes |
Also available in electronic version via the internet |
| Subject |
Atomic bomb -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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| SUBJECT |
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157
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| ISBN |
9780732288457 (hbk.) |
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9780732288464 (paperback) |
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