Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power

This revised edition of a work first published in 1960, provides new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima was not to end the war on Japan, but to make the Russians more manageable. It re-evaluates the decisions that precipitated the use of atomic weapons.

• Author
• Gar Alperovitz, Alperovitz

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 402

• Publisher
• Pluto Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780745309477

• Genres
• history, japan, politics

• Release date
• 1994