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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
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Author:
David Dean Barrett
Publisher:
Diversion Books
Date:
April 7, 2020
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945âsecret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat.
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Barrett offers a unique glimpse at the political negotiations between the United States and Japan in the weeks leading up to and directly after the bombings.
... an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
A detailed, almost day-by-day account of political debates that preceded Japan’s surrender in World War II.
