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Atomic Tragedy
Author | : Sean L. Malloy |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : 0801446546 |
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Atomic Tragedy
Author | : Sean Langdon Malloy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : 0801446546 |
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Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an experienced, principled man faltered when confronted by the tremendous challenge posed by the intersection of war, diplomacy, and technology, Sean L. Malloy examines Stimson's struggle to reconcile his responsibility for "the most terrible weapon ever known in human history" with his long-standing convictions about war and morality. Ultimately, Stimson's story is one of failure; despite his beliefs, Stimson reluctantly acquiesced in the use of the atomic bomb against heavily populated Japanese cities in August 1945.This is the first biography of Stimson to benefit from extensive use of papers relating to the Manhattan Project; Malloy has also uncovered evidence illustrating the origins of Stimson's commitment to eliminating or refining the conduct of war against civilians, information that makes clear the agony of Stimson's dilemma. The ultimate aim of Atomic Tragedy is not only to contribute to a greater historical understanding of the first use of nuclear weapons but also to offer lessons from the decision-making process during the years 1940-1945 that are applicable to the current world environment. As the United States mobilizes scientists and engineers to build new and supposedly more "usable" nuclear weapons and as nations in Asia and the Middle East are replicating the feat of the Manhattan Project physicists at Los Alamos, it is more important than ever that policymakers and analysts recognize the chain of failures surrounding the first use of those weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima
Author | : John Hersey |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780593082362 |
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Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Fallout
Author | : Philip L. Fradkin |
Publsiher | : Big Earth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1555663311 |
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Documents the story behind the story of the nuclear testing in southern Nevada during the 1950s when radioactive fallout drifted into surrounding communities. First sheep began dying, according to the author, and then people. The book places blame for the incident on all levels of government, from presidents to radiation monitors. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
American Prometheus
Author | : Kai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin |
Publsiher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781838957193 |
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***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
Why Did Hiroshima Happen
Author | : R. G. Grant |
Publsiher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781433948947 |
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Details the events of Hiroshima when, in the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber headed for the city to drop an atomic bomb on the city. Photographs from the period supplement the text.
Bombing the Marshall Islands
Author | : Keith M. Parsons,Robert A. Zaballa |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107047327 |
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A narrative history of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958.
Sachiko
Author | : Caren Barzelay Stelson |
Publsiher | : Carolrhoda Books (R) |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781467789035 |
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This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson chronicles Sachiko's trauma and loss as well as her long journey to find peace. This book offers readers a remarkable new perspective on the final moments of World War II and their aftermath.