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Atomic Diplomacy
Gar Alperovitz
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Description for Atomic Diplomacy
paperback. For students of politics, history and peace studies, this classic work is important reading for anyone interested in the history - and future - of peace and war. Num Pages: 414 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FPJ; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJF; HBJK; HBWQ; JPS; JWMN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 608.
This book provides important new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war in Japan, as was said at the time, but to ‘make the Russians more manageable’.
Drawing on recently released diaries and records of Truman, Eisenhower and others, Alperovitz re-evaluates the assumptions, hesitations and decisions that precipitated the use of atomic weapons and traces how possession of the bomb changed American strategy toward the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference and helped to set it on a course that contributed to the ... Read more
This book provides important new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war in Japan, as was said at the time, but to ‘make the Russians more manageable’.
Drawing on recently released diaries and records of Truman, Eisenhower and others, Alperovitz re-evaluates the assumptions, hesitations and decisions that precipitated the use of atomic weapons and traces how possession of the bomb changed American strategy toward the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference and helped to set it on a course that contributed to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
Number of Pages
414
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745309477
SKU
V9780745309477
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About Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz is a historian and political economist and is President of the National Center for Economic Alternatives in Washington DC. He has been a fellow of Kings College Cambridge and the Kennedy Institute at Harvard. He has contributed to many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Nation. A BBC special on Alperovitz's work was ... Read more
Reviews for Atomic Diplomacy
'A daring and elaborate work of historical reconstruction'
New York Review of Books 'Since its publication almost everyone who has written about the beginning of the atomic age has praised or denounced the book'
New York Times
New York Review of Books 'Since its publication almost everyone who has written about the beginning of the atomic age has praised or denounced the book'
New York Times