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Atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. ‘Wouldn’t it be an odd thing if these were the only two atomic bombs ever dropped?’, General Carl A. Spaatz (quoted in Life, 1945, p. 25) wondered back then. As it happens, nuclear weapons were never used again. This book is about this oddity.
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Sauer, F. (2015). Introduction. In: Atomic Anxiety. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137533746_1
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