The Great Decision The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb by Amrine, Michael - 1960

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one tiny nick / tear to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears along with some light wrinkling to the top spine end and one smallish spot of color lifted from the front cover by the title where a price sticker was removed by a former owner. "Between the time that Truman, then ignorant of the atomic project under way at Los Alamos, became President of the United States and the date of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, 116 days elapsed. This was the period during which the great decision was arrived at - a decision which has since cruelly exercised the conscience of America and, in ratio to ther share of responsibility, Great Britain. Lucidly and methodically Michael Amrine chronicles, step by step, the events, political and scientific, which led up to the fateful day." "Mr. Amrine worked with the Federation of Atomic Scientists and the Atomic Energy Commission, and was managing editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists." (from Georgetown University Library Associates Newsletter) .