The most controversial decision : Truman, the atomic bombs, and the defeat of Japan /
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on archival research, an...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge essential histories.
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Table of Contents:
- The most controversial decision
- Franklin Roosevelt, the Manhattan Project, and the development of the atomic bomb
- Harry Truman, Henry Stimson, and atomic briefings
- James F. Byrnes, the atomic bomb, and the Pacific War
- The Potsdam Conference, the Trinity test, and atomic diplomacy
- Hiroshima, the Japanese, and the Soviets
- The Japanese surrender
- Necessary, but was It right?
- Byrnes, the Soviets, and the American atomic monopoly
- The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War.
