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A couple of weekend reading suggestions for the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings at #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki #WW2
1) A useful primer by @wellerstein (not just for journalists, either) on the sometimes messy & multi-faceted processes that led up to the bombs being dropped. https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1270388971319758850
1) A useful primer by @wellerstein (not just for journalists, either) on the sometimes messy & multi-faceted processes that led up to the bombs being dropped. https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1270388971319758850
2) A useful perspective by Jacques Hymans in @jststs on the similarly messy, multi-faceted processes in Britain that led to the the oft-forgotten, formal & explicit British consent for the bomb to be used, granted by Churchill on 4th July 1945 (£) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390903189428?journalCode=fjss20
3) Also by @wellerstein, this time for @NatGeo, on whether the US had plans, or indeed the capacity, to deliver more atomic bombs against Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1291040784989466636?s=20
4) A useful Soviet perspective from @DrRadchenko for @ForeignPolicy, on the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki & whether the bombs prevented a Soviet invasion of Japan that had been scheduled to begin on Hokkaido on 24th August 1945 https://twitter.com/DrRadchenko/status/1290887228185620481?s=20
Fascinating #thread from @wellerstein looking at the days between the bombings of #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki including the role of Yoshio Nishina, head of one of Japan's own nuclear projects, who led the mission to Hiroshima to comfirm it was a nuclear weapon. https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1292196537179803648?s=20
Another good #thread, this time by @PhillipsPOBrien on some of the processes at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, prior to the bombings of #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki #WW2 https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1284029665250807809?s=20
