Rotter, Andrew Jon.

Hiroshima : the world's bomb / Andrew J. Rotter. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 371 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - Making of the modern world . - Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press) eng. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-355) and index.

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.


9780192804372 (hbk.)

2007045146


Atomic bomb--History.

QC773 / R67 2008

355.8251190904 / R851