This book provides detailed reconstruction of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to shed new light upon a set of influential assumptions about the moral acceptability of using nuclear weapons, the rationality of nuclear decision making, and the controllability of nuclear operations.
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This book provides detailed reconstruction of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to shed new light upon a set of influential assumptions about the moral acceptability of using nuclear weapons, the rationality of nuclear decision making, and the controllability of nuclear operations.
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1. The Hiroshima Axioms 2. Our Present Discontents 3. Nuclear Non–Decision Making 4. Nuclear Policy and the Friction of War 5. Nuclear War and Its Termination 6. Nuclear War and Its Justification 7. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Present 8. Conclusion
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Product details
ISBN
9780367158354
Published
2020-10-19
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
195 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
146
Author
Biographical note
Ian Clark is a fellow of Selwyn College and teaching fellow in Defense Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Limited Nuclear War (1982) and coeditor of The Indian Ocean in Global Politics (Westview, 1981).