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- catalog abstract "More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enormous interest and controversy. In this concise and balanced account, J. Samuel Walker offers a new look at the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman's use of atomic bombs against Japan. Combining extensive documentary research with a critical reading of both American and Japanese scholarship, Walker examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made, delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluating the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and American domestic politics. Rising above an often polemical debate, he presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and an important, original contribution to our understanding of the events that ushered in the atomic age.".
- catalog alternative "Prompt & utter destruction".
- catalog contributor b10444954.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 1945-1953.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Combining extensive documentary research with a critical reading of both American and Japanese scholarship, Walker examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made, delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluating the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and American domestic politics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-130) and index.".
- catalog description "More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enormous interest and controversy. In this concise and balanced account, J. Samuel Walker offers a new look at the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman's use of atomic bombs against Japan.".
- catalog description "Rising above an often polemical debate, he presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and an important, original contribution to our understanding of the events that ushered in the atomic age.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 142 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Prompt and utter destruction.".
- catalog identifier "0807823619 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807846627 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Prompt and utter destruction.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Prompt and utter destruction.".
- catalog spatial "Japan.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 1945-1953.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "940.54/25 21".
- catalog subject "Atomic bomb.".
- catalog subject "D767.25.H6 W355 1997".
- catalog subject "Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Japan.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Prompt & utter destruction".
- catalog title "Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan / J. Samuel Walker.".
- catalog type "text".