J. Samuel Walker - Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan
Here you can read online J. Samuel Walker - Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 1997, publisher: University of North Carolina Press, genre: Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
Book:
Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan
Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Trumans most controversial decision. He delineates what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluates the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and American domestic politics. In this new edition, Walker takes into account recent scholarship on the topic, including new information on the Japanese decision to surrender. He has revised the book to place more emphasis on the effect of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in convincing the emperor and his advisers to quit the war. Rising above an often polemical debate, Walker presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and an important, original contribution to our understanding of the events that ushered in the atomic age.
J. Samuel Walker: author's other books
Who wrote Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Prompt and Utter Destruction : Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan
author
:
Walker, J. Samuel.
publisher
:
University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0807846627
print isbn13
:
9780807846629
ebook isbn13
:
9780807866184
language
:
English
subject
World War, 1939-1945--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Japan, Atomic bomb, United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953, Truman, Harry S.,--1884-1972.
publication date
:
1997
lcc
:
D767.25.H6W355 1997eb
ddc
:
940.54/25
subject
:
World War, 1939-1945--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Japan, Atomic bomb, United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953, Truman, Harry S.,--1884-1972.
Page ii
Prompt and Utter Destruction
Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan
J. Samuel Walker
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS CHAPEL HILL AND LONDON
Page iv
Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif) , netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks.
1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. This book was set in Monotype Garamond by Tseng Information Systems. Book design by Richard Hendel. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walker, J. Samuel. Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan / by J. Samuel Walker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2361-9 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4662-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. World War, 1939-1945 United States. 2. World War, 1939-1945 Japan. 3. Atomic bomb. 4. United States Foreign relations 1945-1953. 5. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. I. Title. D767.25.H6W3551997 940.54'25 dc2196-52038 CIP
01 00 99 985 4 3 2
Page v
This book is dedicated with love to my children Mary Beth and Dan.
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
1 A Categorical Choice?
1
2 The Most Terrible Weapon Ever Known
7
3 The Prospects for Victory, June 1945
20
4 Paths to Victory
35
5 Truman and the Bomb at Potsdam
53
6 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
76
7 Hiroshima in History
98
Chronology: Key Events of 1945 Relating to the Pacific War
111
Notes
113
Essay on Sources
131
Index
137
Page viii
Illustrations
1 Marshall and Stimson, January 1942
3
2 Damage to Tokyo from firebombing
28
3 Japanese kamikaze attack off Okinawa
33
4 Truman, Byrnes, and Leahy en route to Potsdam
54
5 Test explosion of atomic bomb, July 16, 1945
57
6 Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam
63
7 Hiroshima after the atomic attack
78
8 Nagasaki before and after the atomic bomb
81
9 Editorial cartoon, "The Fellow Who Lighted the Fuse"
99
Page ix
Preface
This book is a labor of love. The question of why President Truman used atomic bombs against Japan has intrigued me since I was an undergraduate history major. Indeed, it was the first issue in which the competing arguments of different scholars caught my interest, in contrast to other historiographical debates that left me befuddled and rather resentful that historians could not make up their minds and agree on revealed truth. When I attended graduate school in history, my understanding of the subjectivity of "truth" in historical interpretation and the reasons for historiographical controversy increased, as did my interest in a wide range of historical topics. At the same time, my interest in the debate over the use of the atomic bomb waned. Even though my field of specialization in graduate school was American diplomatic history, my own research focused on other matters. I thought the work of several scholars who published pathbreaking books and articles in the 1970s had largely resolved the key questions surrounding the use of the bomb.
Similar books «Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan»
Look at similar books to Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Reviews about «Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan»
Discussion, reviews of the book Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.
1997