Hiroshima, Nagasaki : the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath /
Paul Ham
- London : Black Swan, 2013
- viii, 716p., ills, index 25 cm.
Originally published: Australia : HarperCollins Publishers, Australia Pty Limited, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-601) and index.
Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The Target Committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional surrender -- Trinity -- Potsdam -- Mokusatsu -- Sumer 1945 -- Tinian Island -- Augusta -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Invasion -- Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Surrender -- Reckoning -- Hibakusha -- Why -- Dead meat.
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War.
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