Hiroshima · the World's Bomb by Author, Unknown -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgements Contents Plates Introduction ONE - The World’s Atom

1. Dissecting the atom 2. The republic of science 3. The republic threatened: the advent of poisonous gas 4. The ethics of battlefield gas 5. Scientists and states: the Soviet Union and the United States 6. The ethical obligations of scientists

TWO - Great Britain: Refugees, Air Power, and the Possibility of the Bomb

1. Hitler’s gifts, Britain’s scientists 2. The advent of air power 3. War again, and the new doctrine of air bombardment 4. The discovery of nuclear fission, and the bomb reimagined

THREE - Japan and Germany: Paths not Taken

1. Finding uranium 2. The Germans advance 3. Japan’s nuclear projects 4. Germany’s nuclear projects 5. The Americans and British move forward

FOUR - The United States I: Imagining and Building the Bomb

1. The MAUD Committee and the Americans 2. The Americans get serious 3. To war 4. Resolving to build and use the bomb 5. Oppie 6. Groves 7. Centralizing the project 8. Fissions: uranium and plutonium 9. Life and work on ‘The Hill’ 10. A different sort of weapon

FIVE - The United States II: Using the Bomb

1. The progress of the war against Germany 2. The allies and the strategic bombing of Germany 3. The war in the Pacific 4. The bombing of Japan 5. The firebombings and the atomic bombs 6. Doubters 7. The dismissal of doubt 8. To Alamogordo, July 1945 9. Truman at Potsdam 10. Why the bombs were dropped 11. Alternatives to the atomic bombs, and moral objections to attacking civilians 12. The threshold of horror: Poison gas

SIX - Japan: The Atomic Bombs and War’s End

1. Japan in retreat 2. Preparing to fight the invaders 3. Preparing to drop Little Boy 4. Mission No. 13 5. The bombed city 6. The bombed people 7. Patterns of response 8. The shock waves from the bomb 9. Soviet entry and the bombing of Nagasaki 10. The Big Six debates 11. Explaining Japan’s surrender 12. Assessing the damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 13. ‘Nothing, Nothing’: Memories of Hiroshima

SEVEN - The Soviet Union: The Bomb and the Cold War

1. The American response 2. The early Soviet nuclear program 3. The Soviets’ atomic spies 4. Stalin decides to build the bomb 5. The bomb and the onset of the Cold War 6. Call/response: Developing the ‘super’ 7. The arms race and nuclear diversity 8. The limits of atomic weapons: The Cuban missile crisis

EIGHT - The World’s Bomb

1. Great Britain 2. The French atomic bomb 3. Israel: Security and status 4. South Africa: To the nuclear brink and back 5. China: The people’s bomb 6. India: Status, religion, and masculinity 7. The critics of nuclear weapons

Epilogue: Nightmares and Hopes Notes

introduction: the world’s bomb chapter one: the world’s atom chapter two: Great Britain: Refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb chapter four: the United States I chapter five: the united states II chapter six: Japan: the atomic bombs and war's end chapter seven: the Soviet Union: the bomb and the cold war chapter eight: the world's bomb epilogue

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