Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan / J. Samuel Walker.
2004
D767.25.H6 W355 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan / J. Samuel Walker.
Author
Walker, J. Samuel.
Cover Title
Prompt & utter destruction
Edition
Rev. ed.
ISBN
080785607X (pbk.)
Publication Details
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Language
English
Description
xv, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
D767.25.H6 W355 2004
Alternate Call Number
15.75
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.5425
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.
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Table of Contents
A categorical choice?
The most terrible weapon ever known
The prospects for victory, June 1945
Paths to victory
Truman and the bomb at Potsdam
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima in history
Chronology: key events of 1945 relating to the Pacific war.
The most terrible weapon ever known
The prospects for victory, June 1945
Paths to victory
Truman and the bomb at Potsdam
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima in history
Chronology: key events of 1945 relating to the Pacific war.