O’Reilly, Bill The
Day the World Went Nuclear, 294 pgs. Henry Holt
and Company, 2017. $19.99 Content: Language: PG (2 swears); Mature
Content: G; Violence: PG-13.
This book
explains the events leading up to the dropping of the nuclear bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mostly based in
1945, the book goes back and forth between what is happening in Japan, Los
Alamos and throughout the Pacific as World War II comes to a head. The key players in the United States
government and the Japanese government are discussed, and their involvement in
the war.
This is a succinct description
of the final year of war in the Pacific.
The devastation that the bomb causes in Japan and the opposition against
it are discussed as well as the reasons why the United States decided to go
ahead with the bombing. The violence
includes mass killing and description of the effects of the nuclear bomb. There are great pictures included throughout
and some primary documents.
MS, HS –
ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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