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Author Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009.

Title Hiroshima : why America dropped the atomic bomb / Ronald Takaki.

Publication Info. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5425 T14    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5425 T13H    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  940.5425 TA    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 193 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-183) and index.
Contents 1. "A past that is not even past" -- 2. "Several suns in midday" -- 3. To save "half a million" American lives -- 4. The "overriding concern" : two schools of thought -- 5. Remembering Pearl Harbor -- 6. Where the buck stopped -- 7. Hiroshima : faces of war and humanity -- Notes -- Index.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
Strategy.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
ISBN 0316831220
9780316831222
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