Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Maddox, Robert J. (Robert James)

Publication

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xvii, 215 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Weapons for Victory originally appeared in 1998, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Now, in this paperback edition, Robert James Maddox provides a new introduction about the ongoing controversy related to the decision to bomb Hiroshima."--Jacket.

Subjects

• History
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
• United States > Military policy
• Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
• Nuclear warfare > Moral and ethical aspects
• Atomic bomb > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Previous ed.: 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0826215629 (pbk.)

OCLC

58595700

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library