Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Prompt And Utter Destruction:

Truman And The Use Of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
Front Cover
8 Reviews
University of NORTH CAROLINA Press, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 142 pages
More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enormous interest and controversy. In this concise and balanced account, J. Samuel Walker offers a new look at the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman's use of atomic bombs against Japan. Combining extensive documentary research with a critical reading of both American and Japanese scholarship, Walker examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made, delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time and evaluating the role of U.S.-Soviet relations and American domestic politics. Rising above an often polemical debate, he presents an accessible synthesis of previous work and an important, original contribution to our understanding of the events that ushered in the atomic age.

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
2
4 stars
3
3 stars
3
2 stars
0
1 star
0

Review: Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan

User Review  - John - Goodreads

Concise and excellent review of the decision making process. No great revelations, but adds to Cold War research. Read full review

Review: Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan

User Review  - Josh Liller - Goodreads

I am writing a term paper on the atomic bomb and I ordered this book without realizing how short it was. For a short summary (just over 100 pages) on the issue, it accomplishes its goal. But while ... Read full review

All 8 reviews »

Related books

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
J. Samuel Walker
Limited preview - 2009
Truman and the Hiroshima Cult
Truman and the Hiroshima Cult
Robert P. Newman
Limited preview - 2011
Hiroshima in America
Hiroshima in America
Robert J. Lifton,Greg Mitchell
No preview available - 1996
All related books »

Other editions - View all

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
Walker, J. Samuel
Limited preview - 2009
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
Walker, J. Samuel
Limited preview - 2009
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against ...
J. Samuel Walker
Limited preview - 2009
View all »

References to this book

From other books

Secret messages: codebreaking and American diplomacy, 1930-1945
Secret messages: codebreaking and American diplomacy, 1930-1945
David J. Alvarez
Snippet view - 2000
The Final Months of the War with Japan: Signals Intelligence, U. S. Invasion ...
The Final Months of the War with Japan: Signals Intelligence, U. S. Invasion ...
Douglas J. MacEachin
Full view - 1998
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

The Myth of the Vanquished: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Benedict Giamo - 2003 - American Quarterly
Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945
Follow-Up Questions
College Of Social Sciences
ADAM FERNANDEZ - 2008
Collective memory and the possibility of peace By
Ellen Hansen
All Scholar search results »

References from web pages

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs ...
160 pp., 51/2 x 91/4, 9 illus. Published: Spring 2005, Prompt and Utter Destruction Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan by J. Samuel Walker ...
uncpress.unc.edu/ chapters/ walker_prompt.html

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. By J. Samuel Walker. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina ...
www.questia.com/ PM.qst?a=o& se=gglsc& d=5001286291

JSTOR: Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan. Martin Harwit. Isis, Vol. 89, No. 1, 156-157. Mar., 1998. J. Samuel Walker. ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0021-1753(199803)89%3A1%3C156%3APAUDTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs ...
Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan. By: J Samuel Walker. Type: English : Book : Non-fiction ...
worldcatlibraries.org/ wcpa/ isbn/ 0-8078-2361-9

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs ...
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan.(Review) from Historian, The in Reference provided by Find Articles.
findarticles.com/ p/ articles/ mi_hb3498/ is_/ ai_n8290321

J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use ...
J. Samuel Walker,. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of. Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 ...
faculty.virginia.edu/ nuclear/ vault/ readings/ walker_promt_and_utter_destruction.pdf

Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945
Student Activity. Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945. atomic bomb photo. Introduction; Vocabulary; Primary Source; Document Analysis ...
www.trumanlibrary.org/ teacher/ abomb.htm

Bomb! Unbomb!
J. Samuel Walker is the author of ''Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan.'' Return to the Books Home Page ...
www.nytimes.com/ books/ 99/ 12/ 12/ reviews/ 991212.12walkert.html

Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb http://www.trumanlibrary.o rg/whistlestop/study_colle ctions/bomb/large/index.ph p Truman Presidential Museum and Library ...
chnm.gmu.edu/ worldhistorysources/ r/ 46/ whm.html

Dropping the Atomic Bomb: Historiography
311-334; Samuel J. Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan (Chapel Hill, NC, 1997); Richard B Frank, ...
www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/ ahas/ bomb_historiography.html

About the author (2004)

J. Samuel Walker, historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published six other books on the history of American foreign policy and the history of nuclear energy.

Bibliographic information

QR code for Prompt And Utter Destruction
TitlePrompt And Utter Destruction: Truman And The Use Of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
AuthorJ. Samuel Walker
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherUniversity of NORTH CAROLINA Press, 2004
ISBN080785607X, 9780807856079
Length142 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
History / Military / Nuclear Warfare
History / Military / World War II
History / United States / 20th Century
Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy
Political Science / International Relations / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan