This book tells the story of the Hiroshima bomb. It will explore, in layperson.s terms, the physics of the bomb,
the international crises that led to the Second World War, the creation of a community of scientists, throughout
the world and especially in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, dedicated to developing a weapon that
could undo the evil that resided in Nazi Germany, the harnessing of their efforts by the wartime state, the
political and strategic decisions that led to the bombing itself, the impact of the bomb on Hiroshima and the
endgame of the Pacific War, the largely unavailing attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons in the war.s
aftermath and the evolution of the nuclear arms race, the effects of the bombing and the bomb on society and
culture, and the state of things nuclear in the early twenty-first-century world.

Throughout, the account will contextualize the event.too seldom regarded as the place.we call
Hiroshima as an episode in international history, not solely the consequence of wartime hatreds
that marked the American.Japanese relationship in 1941.1945.

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