Product Description: This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists who advocated international cooperation on nuclear matters...read more

Describes the final days of the struggle between the Allies and Japan during World War II and depicts the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan

Traces events leading up to the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and describes the horrible effects produced by the atomic explosion.

Children who survived the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima recount their experiences and the feelings their memories evoke about the war

Selected readings provide a broad retrospective discussion of the moral and political considerations involved in the decision to use the bomb

Product Description: Here is the 214 pg 1st Edition of the privately owned hardcover by Frederick Dunn, Bernard Brodie, Arnold Wolfers, Percy Corbett and William Fox as edited by Bernard Brodie from Harcourt, Brace and Co., and copyrighted 1946. Contents of the book include the Intro entitled The Common Problem and 3 Parts entitled: Part I: The Weapon: War in the Atomic Age and Implications for Military Policy; Part II: Political Consequences: The Atomic Bomb in Soviet-American Relations and Effect on International Organization; and Part III: International Control of Atomic Weapons...read more