Five Days in August (eBook)

How World War II Became a Nuclear War

Michael D. Gordin (Autor)

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2015
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7443-9 (ISBN)

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Michael D. Gordin is professor of the history of science at Princeton University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly.

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Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the Japanese were by the attack, and that not only had experts planned and fully anticipated the need for a third bomb, they were skeptical about whether the atomic bomb would work at all. With these ideas, Michael Gordin reorients the historical and contemporary conversation about the A-bomb and World War II.Five Days in August explores these and countless other legacies of the atomic bomb in a glaring new light. Daring and iconoclastic, it will result in far-reaching discussions about the significance of the A-bomb, about World War II, and about the moral issues they have spawned.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2015
• Vorwort: Michael D. Gordin
• Zusatzinfo: 2 halftones. 5 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 509th Composite Group • Air burst • Archive • Atomic Age • Attack on Pearl Harbor • Baruch Plan • Blockade • Bockscar • Boeing B-29 Superfortress • Bomb • Charles Sweeney • Chester W. Nimitz • civilian • Conventional weapon • Curtis LeMay • Demobilization • Detonation • diplomatic history • Dr. Strangelove • Edward Teller • Empire of Japan • Enola Gay • European theatre of World War II • Exclusion • firebombing • GUAM • Harry S. Truman • Harvard University • Henry H. Arnold • Henry L. Stimson • Herman Kahn • Hiroshima • Historiography • Holland Smith • Incendiary device • Interim Committee • James Bryant Conant • James Forrestal • Japan Self-Defense Forces • John Hersey • John W. Dower • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Kenneth Bainbridge • Kyushu • Leslie Groves • Literature • Little Boy • Manhattan Project • Mariana Islands • Memoir • military history • mushroom cloud • Mutual Assured Destruction • Nagasaki • Napalm • Nazi Germany • nuclear proliferation • nuclear strategy • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapons testing • occupation of japan • Operation Barbarossa • Operation Downfall • Pacific War • Pacifism • paul tibbets • Pearl Harbor • Philip Morrison • Plutonium • Politician • Postwar Japan • potsdam conference • potsdam declaration • Princeton University • Princeton University Press • Prisoner of War • Project Alberta • Robert Serber • Silverplate • Smyth Report • Soviet Union • strategic bombing • Superiority (short story) • surrender of japan • The Great Artiste • Thermonuclear weapon • Tinian • Trinity (nuclear test) • Uncertainty • Unconditional surrender • United States Army Air Forces • v-2 rocket • Victory over Japan Day • War Crime • war effort • warfare • Weapon • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7443-2 / 1400874432
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7443-9 / 9781400874439