| Author: | Sherwin, Martin J. | Place: | New York |
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| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf | Year: | 1975 | Page: | 327 |
Sherwin, Martin J.. A World Destroyed: the atomic bomb and the grand alliance . , , . Pp. 327
This is a detailed accounton U.S. foreign relations from World War II to the cold war. The author maintains that Hiroshima and Nagasaki became symbols of a new American barbalism as American-Soviet relations deteriorared. So he says that Hiroshima marked a beginning, not an end, of the nuclear arms race and the possible extinction of the human race.