Hiroshima: The World's Bomb
by Andrew Jon Rotter /
2009 / English / PDF
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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. Above all, as this fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by a US pilot that hot August morning in 1945 was inmany 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 the years ahead.
