Hiroshima

• The international story behind the development of the atom bomb
• Goes beyond the controversy over the rights and wrongs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to show how the bomb was 'the world's bomb' - in both a technological and a moral sense - and not simply an American invention
• Tells the story of the bomb's cultural, political, and military impact in the years after Hiroshima

Readership: All those interested in the history of the atom bomb and its development, and in the history of the Cold War.

Andrew J. Rotter, Charles A. Dana Professor, Department of History, Colgate University

"Sagacious and impeccably researched." - Alex Larman, The Observer

Introduction: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
1: The World's Atom
2: Great Britain: Refugees, Air Power, and the Possibility of the Bomb
3: Japan and Germany: The Doomsday Scenario
4: The United States: Imagining and Building the Bomb
5: The United States, II: Using the Bomb
6: Japan: The Atomic Bombs, and War's End
7: The Bomb, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
8: The World's Bomb: Strategy, Culture, and Ethics, 1945-2000
Epilogue: The Bomb in the 21st Century