Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima And Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb And the American Confrontation with Soviet Power - Softcover

Alperovitz, Gar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140083375 ISBN 13: 9780140083378

Publisher: Penguin, 1985

Synopsis

Probes the complex military and diplomatic factors which ultimately led to the American decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan

About this title

Review:

'Since its publication almost everyone who has written about the beginning of the atomic age has praised or denounced the book' -- New York Times 'A daring and elaborate work of historical reconstruction' -- New York Review of Books

About the Author:

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 screened 1989.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140083375
• ISBN 13: 9780140083378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448