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Weapons for Victory
Robert James Maddox
其他書名
The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later
出版University of Missouri Press, 2004-08-23
主題History / GeneralHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / Nuclear WarfareHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / WorldPolitical Science / International Relations / Arms ControlPolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Military Policy
ISBN08262156299780826215628
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NQHSxnDN0_gC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay released an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9 another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Fifty years have passed since these catastrophic events, and the bombings still remain highly controversial. The official justification for using these weapons was that they prevented enormous losses on both sides by avoiding an Allied invasion of Japan. Many diplomatic historians, however, have asserted that the bombings were unnecessary. One extreme argument is that Truman knew the Japanese were ready to surrender but wanted to use the bombs to intimidate the Soviet Union. Robert Maddox examines all these claims in Weapons for Victory as he strives to dispel the many myths that have been accepted as fact. In addition to Maddox's valuable recasting of the circumstances leading to the bombings, he also confronts the proposed Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit with careful historical analysis.