Hiroshima_ The World's Bomb - Andrew J. Rotter [233]
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
Bibliographical Essay
Credits
Index