The atom bomb
By: Tamara L. Roleff, book editor
Series: Turning points; Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780737702149; 9780737702156
Subjects: Kernwaffe; Moral and ethical aspects; Geschichte; Atomic bomb; Atombombenabwurf; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Brief history of the atom bomb; title: Development of the atom bomb; title: Discovery of fission / C. P. Snow ; First nuclear chain reaction / Laura Fermi ; Race to make the atom bomb / Robert C. Batchelder ; Manhattan Project / Ferenc Morton Szasz ; Trinity Test / Leslie R. Groves; title: Decision to drop the atom bomb; title: It was always assumed the bomb would be used / Alan Cranston ; Government was justified in using the atom bomb / Henry L. Stimson ; Using the atom bomb was unnecessary and immoral / Hanson W. Baldwin ; Atom bomb was used to intimidate the Soviets / Gar Alperovitz ;; title: Aftermath; title: Hiroshima survivor's tale / Atsuko Tsujioka ; Visiting the devastation of Nagasaki / Charles W. Sweeney ; Society laid waste / Committee for the Compilation; title: America in the Cold War; title: U.S. soldiers are exposed to radiation in postwar tests / Michael Uhl and Tod Ensign ; Continuing cycle of fear and apathy / Paul Boyer ; Atom bomb in pop culture / Bryan C. Taylor; title: In retrospect : scientists evaluate the atom bomb; title: Scientist leaves the Manhattan Project / Joseph Rotblat ; Scientists look back on the Manhattan Project / William L. Laurence ; Scientists must be morally responsible for their work / John A. Simpson ; United States was right to build the hydrogen bomb / Edward Teller; title: Epilogue : Enola Gay controversy / Michael J. Hogan.