Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American
atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail
of new evidence that has come to light concerning these often emotionally debated subjects. He also invokes his experience as a historical advisor to the controversial, aborted 1995 Enola
Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, which leads him to analyze the impact on American democracy of one of the most insidious legacies of
Hiroshima: the political control of historical interpretation.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Sure to be the definitive study of these particular questions.” —Noam Chomsky
“The quality of Sherwin’s research and the strength of his argument are far superior to previous accounts.” —New York Times Book Review
“A dispassionate, richly detailed account that promises…to be the definitive book on the formation of atomic-energy policy during World War II.” —Time
“One of those rare achievements of conscientious scholarship, a book at once graceful and luminous, yet loyal to its documentation and restrained in its speculations.” —Boston Globe
Martin J. Sherwin, George Mason University professor of history, is the author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath and the American History
Book prizes, and the coauthor, with Kai Bird, of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006.
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9781433227820
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