TY - BOOK AU - Ham,Paul TI - Hiroshima, Nagasaki: the real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath SN - 1250047110 (hardcover) PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press KW - Atomic bomb victims KW - Japan KW - Hiroshima-shi KW - Nagasaki-shi KW - Atomic bomb KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Hiroshima-shi (Japan) KW - Bombardment, 1945 KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Nagasaki-shi (Japan) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-601) and index; Winter 1945 -- Two cities -- Feuersturm -- President -- Atom -- The Manhattan Project -- Spring 1945 -- The Target Committee -- Japan defeated -- Unconditional surrender -- Trinity -- Potsdam -- Mokusatsu -- Summer 1945 -- Tinian Island -- Augusta -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Invasion -- Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Surrender -- Reckoning -- Hibakusha -- Why -- Dead heat N2 - In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War ER -