Prompt and Utter Destruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prompt and Utter Destruction write by J. Samuel Walker. This book was released on 2016. Prompt and Utter Destruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition
Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition write by J. Samuel Walker. This book was released on 2016-06-27. Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research--mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available--that provides fresh insight on the strategic considerations that led to dropping the bomb. From the debate about whether to invade or continue the conventional bombing of Japan to Tokyo's agonizing deliberations over surrender and the effects of both low- and high-level radiation exposure, Walker continues to shed light on one of the most earthshaking moments in history. Rising above an often polemical debate, the third edition presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and new research to help make sense of the events that ushered in the atomic age.
Prompt and Utter Destruction (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Prompt and Utter Destruction (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prompt and Utter Destruction (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) write by . This book was released on . Prompt and Utter Destruction (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Restricted Data
Restricted Data - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restricted Data write by Alex Wellerstein. This book was released on 2021-04-09. Restricted Data available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Stalin and the Bomb
Stalin and the Bomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalin and the Bomb write by David Holloway. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Stalin and the Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic and “utterly engrossing” study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs). For forty years the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Then, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, David Holloway pulled back the Iron Curtain with his “marvelous, groundbreaking study” Stalin and the Bomb (The New Yorker). How did the Soviet Union build its atomic and hydrogen bombs? What role did espionage play? How did the American atomic monopoly affect Stalin's foreign policy? What was the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's political leaders? David Holloway answers these questions by tracing the dramatic story of Soviet nuclear policy from developments in physics in the 1920s to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950s. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program―environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons.
