Hiroshima Nagasaki : : the Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
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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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: ix, 629 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250047113
1250047110
SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hiroshima-shi.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb victims -- Hiroshima-shi.
Atomic bomb victims -- Nagasaki-shi.
Atomic bomb -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Moral and ethical aspects. -- Bombardment, 1945
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- Moral and ethical aspects. -- Bombardment, 1945