Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Rain Dog Books, Bloomington, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo . 0 pp. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. W13.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well, answers may be filled in. Lastly, may be missing components, e.g. missing DVDs, CDs, Access Code, etc.
Publicado por Knopf, 1980
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: vg+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: vg. 1st ed. stated. 425pp including bibliography & index; white dust jacket is a bit discolored. Hardcover (dj).
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.8.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.8.
Publicado por Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Prestonshire Books, IOBA, Appleton, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. X-library with associated marks and stamps. Interior pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Dust jacket covered in library plastic with sticker on spine, no tears. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. H.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Gold Country Books, Sacramento, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_FINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked. Stated 1st. Jacket not clipped; in mylar cover. Illus., 2 pages of political cartoons. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.
Publicado por Knopf NY 1980, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, Estados Unidos de America
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425pp. 8vo Brown boards and black cloth back 1st edition. Ex-library, light cover soil: VG/VG+ dj 0-394-50394-5.
Publicado por Knopf:, 1980
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Fine-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine-. 425 pages. "Based his work primarily on offical document released during the 1970s Yale historian Gregg Herken makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried-but failed- to make the nation's nuclear monolopy an advantage in negotiating with the Soviet Union." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: very good. Very Good Copy. Fast Shipment.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Bingo Used Books, Vancouver, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. hardback in near fine condition with very good dust jacket.
Publicado por Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_ASNEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Almost Like New. 1st Edition. (First Edition) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1980
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. x, [4], 425, [7] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Embossed seal impression on first two feps. Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of History at University of California, Merced. His scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War. During 1988-2003 he was senior historian and curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In 2003, his book Brotherhood of the Bomb, for which he received a MacArthur Grant to write, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. Herken received his B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1969 and his Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University in 1974. He subsequently held teaching positions at California State University, San Luis Obispo, Oberlin College, Yale University, and California Institute of Technology, and was a Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar at Lund University. He also served on the U.S. government's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994-95. Derived from a Kirkus review: The political considerations surrounding the decision to drop the first atomic bomb--and then to try and keep anyone else from having one--have been fertile ground for revisionist historians. Now Yale historian Herken has his say. Herken thinks the bomb would have fallen on Hiroshima regardless of Soviet actions in Manchuria, so it wasn't solely intended as a warning to Moscow. But unlike some of his colleagues, Herken portrays Truman as unsure about how to use the bomb diplomatically, and wavering while his advisors fought it out. Largely swayed by the misinformation supplied by General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, which gave the impression of prolonged US superiority in atomic weaponry (misinformation based, in turn, on Groves' erroneous assumption of an American monopoly of weapons-grade uranium and of the required engineering capability), Washington opted finally to keep the bomb to itself rather than to use it as a bargaining chip to change the direction of Soviet politics. But the US atomic-bomb monopoly also made possible the use of future international cooperation as a diplomatic lever--specifically, in the hands of Bernard Baruch at the UN. But, Herken argues, the mistaken assumptions surrounding maintenance of the atomic "secret" also doomed the bomb as a diplomatic tool at the UN. Finally, the sudden awareness that the calculations had been wrong all along--which came with the Soviet's own successful bomb test--prompted the US, in 1950, to embark on a policy of further escalation toward development of the hydrogen bomb. Herken adds much that is helpful, especially regarding the central role of Groves. He has also integrated the sensational spy cases of the period into a coherent picture of the simultaneous rise of the atomic age and the "national security state" which is, finally, far superior to others. Herken's measured analysis of government documents and diaries, together with the concentration on secrecy, makes this the leader of a fast pack. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.
Publicado por Knopf, New York, 1980
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Steven G. Jennings, Spring Branch, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Exceptionally clean, bright & tight with dj in mylar.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. Buy for Great customer experience.
Publicado por Knopf, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: new. New.
Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394503945 ISBN 13: 9780394503943
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.