The Bomb, 75 Years On
- Bland L.
- Thursday, August 06, 2020
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August 6, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, an event that hastened the end of World War II but also caused the deaths of an estimated 70,000-126,000 Japanese civilians. It also inaugurated the Cold War and the costly arms race that gripped the world for the next few decades.
The most famous account of the bombing is John Hersey’s classic Hiroshima, first published in The New Yorker in 1946; Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) set the standard for histories of the Manhattan Project and the bomb’s development.
Check out these classics, as well as the other more recent books and e-books listed below, from our collection. (The print books can be placed on hold for pickup at any of our four locations with a drive-through pickup window: Ballentine, Northeast, Sandhills, and St. Andrews.)