Weapons for victory : the Hiroshima decision fifty years later / Robert James Maddox.

Collection type	Library
Author	Maddox, Robert James.;
Call Number	940.5425 M179w
Document type	Monograph
Year	c1995.
Pagination	215 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher	University of Missouri Press,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index. On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay released an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9 another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Fifty years have passed since these catastrophic events, and the bombings still remain highly controversial. The official justification for using these weapons was that they prevented enormous losses on both sides by avoiding an Allied invasion of Japan. Many diplomatic historians, however, have asserted that the bombings were unnecess ary. One extreme argument is that Truman knew the Japanese were ready to surrender but wanted to use the bombs to intimidate the Soviet Union. Robert Maddox examines all these claims in Weapons for Victory as he strives to dispel the many myths that have been accepted as fact. In addition to Maddox's valuable recasting of the circumstances leading to the bombings, he also confronts the proposed Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit with careful historical analysis.
Place made	Columbia :

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