Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan - Softcover

Walker, J. Samuel

 
9780807846629: Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807846627 ISBN 13: 9780807846629
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

A study of the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman's use of atomic bombs against Japan. It examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made and evaluates the role of US-Soviet relations and American domestic politics.

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More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enormous interest and controversy. In this concise and balanced account, J. Samuel Walker offers a new look at the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman's use of atomic bombs against Japan. Combining extensive documentary research with a critical reading of both American and Japanese scholarship, Walker examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made, delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluating the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and American domestic politics. Rising above an often polemical debate, he presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and an important, original contribution to our understanding of the events that ushered in the atomic age.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807846627
ISBN 13 
9780807846629
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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