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2008

Format:	Book
Author:	Rotter, Andrew Jon.
Title:	Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter.
Publisher, Date:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:	371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:	Reveals the international story behind the creation of the atom bomb and the development of the modern age, as it discusses the crises that led to the Second World War, unsuccessful attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, the political and strategic decisions that led to the bomb, and its implications for the modern world.
Series:	Making of the modern world Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:	Atomic bomb -- History.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-355) and index.
Contents:	The world's atom -- Great Britain : refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb -- Japan and Germany : paths not taken -- The United States I : imagining and building the bomb -- The United States II : using the bomb -- Japan : the atomic bombs and war's end -- The Soviet Union : the bomb and the Cold War -- The world's bomb -- Epilogue : nightmares and hopes.
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	2007045146
ISBN:	9780199569762 0199569762 9780192804372 0192804375
Other Number:	176924534
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Control Number:	221060
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Call Number:	355.825119 Rotter

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