Hiroshima: The World's Bomb by Andrew J. Rotter (English) Paperback Book

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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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The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of fundamental and sobering truths about the development of this fearsome weapon. The principle of killing thousands of enemy civilians from the air was already well established by1945 and had been practised on numerous occasions by both sides during the Second World War. Moreover, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was conceived and built by an international community of scientists,not just by the Americans. Other nations (including Japan and Germany) were also developing atomic bombs in the first half of the 1940s, albeit hapharzardly. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any combatant nation foregoing the use of the bomb during the war had it been able to obtain one. The international team of scientists organized by the Americans just got there first. As this fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by a US pilot that hot August morning in1945 was in many ways the world's offspring, in both a technological and a moral sense. And it was the world that would have to face its consequences, strategically, diplomatically, and culturally, in theyears ahead.

Notes

Looks at the bomb's cultural, political and military development and impact, instead of looking just at the science.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima1: The World's Atom2: Great Britain: Refugees, Air Power, and the Possibility of the Bomb3: Japan and Germany: The Doomsday Scenario4: The United States: Imagining and Building the Bomb5: The United States, II: Using the Bomb6: Japan: The Atomic Bombs, and War's End7: The Bomb, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War8: The World's Bomb: Strategy, Culture, and Ethics, 1945-2000Epilogue: The Bomb in the 21st Century

Review

`Review from previous edition Informed and coherently argued'THE`fascinating book.'the scotsman. michael kerrigan.`Well written with nice touches of anecdote.'financial times. Crispin Tickell.`Fascinating history'Sir Crispin Tickell, Financial Times`An absorbing multi-layered history... It deserves the widest readership. Rotter is not concerned exclusively with science. He is as much interested in the erosion of moral inhibitions on bombing civilians that took place during the first half of the twentieth century.'Ian Neary, Times Literary Supplement,

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A compact, engrossing overview of one of the truly critical turning points in the history of the 20th century and indeed of all human history

Long Description

The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of fundamental and sobering truths about the development of this fearsome weapon. The principle of killing thousands of enemy civilians from the air was already well established by1945 and had been practised on numerous occasions by both sides during the Second World War. Moreover, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was conceived and built by an international community of scientists, not just by the Americans. Other nations (including Japan and Germany) were also developing atomicbombs in the first half of the 1940s, albeit hapharzardly. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any combatant nation foregoing the use of the bomb during the war had it been able to obtain one. The international team of scientists organized by the Americans just got there first. As this fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by a US pilot that hot August morning in 1945 was in many ways the world's offspring, in both a technological and a moral sense. And it was theworld that would have to face its consequences, strategically, diplomatically, and culturally, in the years ahead.

Review Text

`Review from previous edition Informed and coherently argued'THE`fascinating book.'the scotsman. michael kerrigan.`Well written with nice touches of anecdote.'financial times. Crispin Tickell.`Fascinating history'Sir Crispin Tickell, Financial Times`An absorbing multi-layered history... It deserves the widest readership. Rotter is not concerned exclusively with science. He is as much interested in the erosion of moral inhibitions on bombing civilians that took place during the first half of the twentieth century.'Ian Neary, Times Literary Supplement,

Review Quote

"Well written with nice touches of anecdote." --financial times. Crispin Tickell. 15.03.08

Feature

The international story behind the development of the atom bombGoes beyond the controversy over the rights and wrongs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to show how the bomb was 'the world's bomb' - in both a technological and a moral sense - and not simply an American inventionTells the story of the bomb's cultural, political, and military impact in the years after Hiroshima

Details ISBN0199569762 Author Andrew J. Rotter Short Title HIROSHIMA Language English ISBN-10 0199569762 ISBN-13 9780199569762 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle The World's Bomb Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 18 black and white plates Birth 1953 Residence US UK Release Date 2009-08-06 AU Release Date 2009-08-06 NZ Release Date 2009-08-06 Pages 384 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2009-08-06 DEWEY 940.542521954 Audience General Series Making of the Modern World We've got this

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