This is the opening volume in a comprehensive history of the global movement against the development, possession, and use of nuclear weapons.
The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World Or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953
Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966.
This book was finalized just prior to Zinn's passing in January 2010, and is published on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
For examples of this argument from defenders of Truman's decision see Newman , Enola Gay and the Court of History , 136 , 139 ; Paul Fussell , Thank God for the Atomic Bomb and Other Essays ( New York , 1990 ) ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
In this new edition, Walker takes into account recent scholarship on the topic, including new information on the Japanese decision to surrender.
"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."
He weaves together the story of the formative years of Israel's nuclear program, from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, to the alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology it needed, to the ...