Book Details

Title:

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race


Author:Sherwin, Martin J.
Place:New York
Publisher:Vintage Books
Year:1987

Reference:

Sherwin, Martin J.. A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race . New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.


Categories:

History and Social Sciences

Languages:

English

Description:

A revised edition of A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance / Knopf: distributed by Random House, 1975. This is a detailed account on 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 barbarism as American-Soviet relations deteriorated. He says that Hiroshima marked a beginning, not an end, of the nuclear arms race and the possible extinction of the human race. 第2次世界大戦から対ソ冷戦までの米国の外交関係について詳しく論じている。戦後に米ソ関係が悪化するにつれ、広島と長崎は米国の暴虐を象徴するものとなった。したがって、「広島」は戦争を終結させたというよりは、核開発競争と人類絶減の可能性の始まりであったとしている。``