Add this copy of Hiroshima Bomb to "Grand Peace" to cart. $225.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Wolfe Business Services.
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Mike Moore (Cloud artwork) Good. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. Various paginations (approximately 70 pages). Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Map. Front cover has edge tear. One page flyer/summary laid in. Rare surviving copy. Gene Preston Rutledge (1926-2008) was a nuclear energy scientist and chemist. During World War II, he worked full-time to fund his education. He studied Chemistry at Spartanburg Methodist College, Converse College, and Clemson University. He then completed a degree in Chemistry at Wofford College. He later earned an M.A. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. In the summer of 1945, he began to work at Oak Ridge in the National Laboratory (ORNL). Here, he worked with uranium that would become part of the original atomic bomb test at Trinity. After the war, and earning his M.A. degree, he returned to Oak Ridge to work as a nuclear researcher. He developed a procedure to prevent the Oak Ridge plant from shutting down, and worked on numerous nuclear energy start up projects. He was the led engineer of a project to create the first nuclear submarine, and he then helped train the naval officers on how to operate it. While working as the Director of Idaho's Nuclear Energy Commission, in the mid-1970s, he hosted weekly television programs and published academic papers. He also worked as an energy scientist in consultant in Alaska, beginning in 1976. He continued to lecture and publish papers after his retirement. The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had become incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945-the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction". While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders (the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, also known as the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the publicly neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable to the Japanese. While maintaining a sufficient level of diplomatic engagement with the Japanese to give them the impression they might be willing to mediate, the Soviets were covertly preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea (in addition to South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) in fulfillment of promises they had secretly made to the United States and the United Kingdom at the Tehran and Yalta Conferences. On 6 August 1945, at 8: 15 am local time, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, American President Harry S. Truman called again for Japan's surrender, warning them to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Late in the evening of 8 August 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on 9 August 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Hours later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Following all these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the Empire on 15 August announcing the surrender of Japan to the Allies. On 28 August, the occupation of Japan led by the Supreme Commander for the Allied...
