Hiroshima: The World's Bomb

摘要

Andrew Rotter examines a well-worn topic. Beginning with the administrative history commissioned by General Leslie Groves and written by Henry Smyth, Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (1945), many have sought to explain the creation of "the Gadget"-the code name given to the first nuclear explosive developed by the Manhattan Project-and the subsequent deployment of Little Boy and Fat Man. Ambitious researchers have attempted to paint in broad strokes the technical scale and grand political implications of the dawn of the atomic age, while others have focused on more narrowly defined topics.