The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War /

After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III. In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko...

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Principais autores: Craig, Campbell, 1964- (Autor), Radchenko, Sergey (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
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Sumário:
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt and atomic wartime diplomacy
  • The great game
  • Truman, the bomb, and the end of World War II
  • Responding to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • The Baruch Plan and the onset of American Cold War
  • Stalin and the burial of international control.