Dropping the Atomic Bomb
(2021, original release: 2020)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2020
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (36 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
11978402
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

In this final episode, reflect on a new era in human civilization. Although Japan was essentially defeated, the government refused to surrender. Travel with President Truman to Potsdam, Germany, where he and Churchill issued a declaration calling for "prompt and utter destruction" if Japan refused to surrender. Then deconstruct the justification for the use of the atomic bombs

Film

In Process Record

Craig L. Symonds

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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