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Five Days in August
Michael D. Gordin
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the Japanese were by the attack, and that not only had experts planned and fully anticipated the need for a third bomb, they were skeptical about whether the atomic bomb would work at all. With these ideas, Michael Gordin reorients the historical and contemporary conversation about the A-bomb and World War II.
Five Days in August explores these and countless other legacies of the atomic bomb in a glaring new light. Daring and iconoclastic, it will result in far-reaching discussions about the significance of the A-bomb, about World War II, and about the moral issues they have spawned.
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Manhattan Project, Operation Downfall, Superiority (short story), War effort, Nuclear weapons testing, Nuclear strategy, Smyth Report, Warfare, Potsdam Declaration, Strategic bombing, Writing, Nazi Germany, Occupation of Japan, Unconditional surrender, Project Alberta, Mushroom cloud, European theatre of World War II, James Forrestal, United States Army Air Forces, Kyushu, Napalm, Curtis LeMay, Princeton University Press, Atomic Age, Thermonuclear weapon, Empire of Japan, Henry L. Stimson, Literature, Interim Committee, Uncertainty, Herman Kahn, The Great Artiste, Diplomatic history, Harvard University, Paul Tibbets, Bockscar, Edward Teller, Firebombing, James Bryant Conant, Plutonium, 509th Composite Group, War crime, Little Boy, Nuclear warfare, Detonation, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Harry S. Truman, Soviet Union, Politician, Bomb, Enola Gay, Demobilization, Nagasaki, Incendiary device, Leslie Groves, Philip Morrison, Silverplate, Memoir, John Hersey, Pacific War, Trinity (nuclear test), Surrender of Japan, Military history, Potsdam Conference, Blockade, World War II, Tinian, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Nuclear weapon, Baruch Plan