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xiv, 460 pages ; 22 cm |
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Bibliography: pages [435]-440. |
| Contents |
PART 1. BEFORE HIROSHIMA: 1. A quiet beginning ; 2. The futile, but visionary, efforts of Niels Bohr ; 3. Bush, Conant, and Stimson begin to lobby for atomic control ; 4. Scientific agitation ; 5. The Interim Committee's perfunctory response ; 4. Scientific agitation ; 6. Potsdam and the attack -- PART 2. AFTER HIROSHIMA: 7. The force from which the sun draws its power ; 8. Stimson departs and is forgotten ; 9. The scientists and the British force America to act ; 10. Moving slowly toward Moscow ; 11. The Moscow Conference -- PART 3. THE AMERICAN PLAN: 12. A feeling of acute revulsion ; 13. The Acheson-Lilienthal report ; 14. The Baron of Hobcaw ; 15. "The last, best hope on Earth" -- PART 4. FAILURE AT THE UNITED NATIONS: 16. The Russian response ; 17. The breach grows wider ; 18. Henry Wallace and the American consensus ; 19. A hollow victory ; 20. The parallel monologue -- PART V. CONCLUSIONS: 21. Sharing the guilt. |
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Also issued online. |
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Nuclear weapons (International law)
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Nuclear disarmament.
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