| Author: | Hershberg, James G. | Place: | New York |
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| Publisher: | Knopf | Year: | 1993 |
Hershberg, James G.. James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age . New York, Knopf, 1993.
This is a critical biography of a scientist who was committed to building the atomic bomb and other nuclear weapons during the cold war due to the growing rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the chapter titled “Shaping Hiroshima's Legacy,” the author explains the controversy concerning the decision to bomb Hiroshima after John Hersey's article appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 1946, and describes how James B. Conant was one of the initial members who promoted the justification for the Hiroshima bombing. 米国の原爆製造に参加し、戦後の冷戦下もソ連との核軍拡競争の中、核兵器の製造にかかわった科学者ジェイムズ・コナントの評伝。「広島の遺産の形成」の章では、1946年ニューヨーカー誌に掲載されたジョン・ハーシーの記事をきっかけに起こった広島への原爆投下の是非論に関し、ヨナントは投下の正当性を主張する側の代表的人物だったと述べている。