The Atomic bomb
Subtitle: the critical issues
By: edited by Barton J. Bernstein.
Contributors: Bernstein, Barton J.
Series: Critical issues in American history series
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects; Atomic bomb -- History; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The official explanation: statement and challenge: Stimson, H. L. The decision to use the atomic bomb.; title: We were anxious to get the war over: an interview with James F. Byrnes.; title: The interim committee discusses the bomb: minutes of May 31, 1945.; title: Scientists petition the government: the Franck Committee report.; title: Grew, J. The war could have been ended without the bomb.; title: Was the bomb necessary?: Baldwin, H. W. The atomic bomb, the penalty of expediency.; title: Morison, S. E. Why Japan surrendered.; title: United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Japan's struggle to end the war.; title: Why was the bomb used?: Feis, H. The atomic bomb and the end of World War II.; title: Alperovitz, G. Atomic diplomacy.; title: Kolko, G. The politics of war: the war with Japan.; title: Bernstein, B. J. The atomic bomb and American foreign policy: the route to Hiroshima.; title: Atomic diplomacy and the moral significance of Hiroshima: Ulam, A. Re-reading the cold war: revising the revisionists.; title: Rose, L. The atomic dilemma and atomic diplomacy.; title: Bernstein, B. J. Atomic diplomacy and the cold war.; title: Herken, G. F. Atomic diplomacy reversed and revised.; title: Macdonald, D. The bomb: the decline to barbarism.