Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Restrospect and Prospect Contributor(s): Barnaby, Frank (Editor), Holdstock, Douglas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714642029 ISBN-13: 9780714642024 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: In August 1945, over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic weapons were used for the first time. About 100,000 people died instantly, by the end of the year some 200,000 were dead, and many thousands since have died of leukaemia and other malignant disease. A distinguished group of contributors look back at these events and their consequences, and look forward to the prospects of ridding the world of the 45,000 nuclear weapons now in the stockpiles. They present evidence that Japan was negotiating for peace well before the bombings, which were as much the start of the East-West Cold War as the end of the Second World War.Prevention of nuclear war requires a nuclear-weapon-free world.
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | International Relations - Arms Control - History | Military - General |
Dewey: 327.174 |
LCCN: 95040610 |
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.41 lbs) 124 pages |
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Publisher Description: Fify-three years ago the first nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They killed some 250,000 poeple. A distinguished group of contributors examine the background and effects of the bombing and look at the lessons for a world which harbours 45,000 nuclear warheads. |