Hiroshima Nagasaki : the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath / Paul Ham.

New York : Picador, a Thomas Dunne book, St. Martin's Press, 2014.©2014

Ham, Paul. author.

01-01-2015

ix, 629 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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World War 2

Japan

Atomic bombs

History

Overseas item

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.

Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.

Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.

Atomic bomb -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-601) and index.

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Examines the history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, arguing that it had little impact on the eventual outcome of war in the Pacific.

ch. 1 Winter 1945 -- ch. 2 Two Cities -- ch. 3 Feuersturm -- ch. 4 President -- ch. 5 Atom -- ch. 6 The Manhattan Project -- ch. 7 Spring 1945 -- ch. 8 The Target Committee -- ch. 9 Japan Defeated -- ch. 10 Unconditional Surrender -- ch. 11 Trinity -- ch. 12 Potsdam -- ch. 13 Mokusatsu -- ch. 14 Summer 1945 -- ch. 15 Tinian Island -- ch. 16 Augusta -- ch. 17 Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- ch. 18 Invasion -- ch. 19 Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- ch. 20 Surrender -- ch. 21 Reckoning -- ch. 22 Hibakusha -- ch. 23 Why.

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