The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Valerie Bodden
- First edition.
- Mankato, Minnesota Creative Education 2016
- 80 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Odysseys in History .
August 1945 -- Total war -- The Pikadon -- The nuclear world -- Attack on Pearl Harbor -- Manhattan Project detractors -- Atomic advent -- Hospital disaster -- The "Fat Man" -- Survivors' plight -- Attitudes of resignation -- Paper crane legacy -- The Hiroshima maidens.
"A look at the causes and global effects of the 1945 atomic bombardment of two Japanese cities, which led to the end of World War II but set the stage for hostilities in the Cold War era"--