Hiroshima and the Historians.
| Autor: | PYLE, KENNETH B. |
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| Zdroj: | Pacific Northwest Quarterly; Summer2013, Vol. 104 Issue 3, p123-132, 10p |
| Abstrakt: | The article considers the controversy in the historical decision of the U.S. government to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan in the 20th-century. It discusses reasons for the use of the atomic bomb that include political intimidation of the Russians and assertion of U.S. dominance in the post-war world, Japanese role and responsibility for the war's ending, and the legacy and unconditional surrender policy of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Databáze: | Supplemental Index |
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