Hiroshima Nagasaki

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"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language [the Japanese] seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true."

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Full title :Hiroshima Nagasaki / Paul Ham.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):HarperCollins Publishers
Place of Publication:Sydney
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 volume

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780732288457, 0732288452, 9780732288464, 0732288460
oclc:ocn746754306
LC Classification:D767.25.H6
Dewey Decimal:940.542521954

Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The target committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional surrender -- Trinity -- Potsdam -- Mokusatsu -- Summer 1945 -- Tinian Island -- Augusta -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Invasion -- Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Surrender -- Reckoning -- Hibakusha -- Why -- Dead heat.

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Atomic bomb Atomic bomb - History - 20th century Bombe atomique -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Hiroshima (Japon) -- Histoire -- 1945 (… Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bom… History Japan -- Hiroshima-shi Japan -- Nagasaki-shi Military operations, Aerial -- American Nagasaki (Japon) -- Histoire -- 1945 (B… Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bomb… War and conflict World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operatio…