The most controversial decision : Truman, the atomic bombs, and the defeat of Japan
This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on archival research, and the most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an overview that is fair and forceful in its judgments. This study addresses a subject that has been much debated among historians, and it confronts head on the highly disputed claim that the Truman administration practiced atomic diplomacy. The book goes beyond its central historical analysis to ask whether it was morally right for the United States to use these terrible weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also provides an evaluation of the relationship between atomic weapons and the origins of the Cold War
Audiobook, English, 2011
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011
History
xii, 174 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
9780521514194, 9780521735360, 0521514193, 052173536X
1020461162
The most controversial decision
Franklin Roosevelt, the Manhattan Project, and the development of the atomic bomb
Harry Truman, Henry Stimson, and atomic briefings
James F. Byrnes, the atomic bomb, and the Pacific War
The Potsdam Conference, the Trinity test, and atomic diplomacy
Hiroshima, the Japanese, and the Soviets
The Japanese surrender
Necessary, but was It right?
Byrnes, the Soviets, and the American atomic monopoly
The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War