The Great Decision: the Secret History of the Atomic Bomb

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By Michael Amrine

Putnam, 1959, 251 pp

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An interesting study that assembles information on the complex chain of actions and decisions that led in spring and summer of 1945 to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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