Day One: Before Hiroshima And After

Description for DAY ONE: BEFORE HIROSHIMA AND AFTER by Peter Wyden: Hiroshima was an event of such magnitude that it divided history into two periods, before the bomb, and after it---"Day One" of a new age, in which "all" life would be at risk. Here in all its drama is the untold story of the dawn of that new age---the creation and the use of the atomic bomb. Never before have ll the strands---scientific, political, moral, military and human---been woven together with such authenticity and such skill as to provide the reader with a full understanding of how the bomb was created and why it was used. DAY ONE does more, far more, than retell the story of Hiroshima; it breaks through the myths that have accumulated around the greatest and most sinister event of human history, to reveal the doubts of men who made the bomb, the ignorance of those who were call upon to make the decision to use it, the fact that even those who had designed the weapon "did not know what it was"---or guess what