The Target Committee

Paul Ham, Andrew Martin, Audible Studios

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English

Bolinda/Audible Audio
01 May 2016

History: specific events & topics; Second World War; Nuclear weapons

How did America choose the targets for the atomic bomb? What made Hiroshima preferable over Kyoto or Tokyo? Critical to the mission to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a series of meetings set up in mid-1945 and comprising America’s most powerful military, political and scientific chiefs. The committeemen would decide where and how the first nuclear weapons would be used in anger.

In this absorbing and provocative narrative, historian Paul Ham shines a torch on their arguments to reveal the thinking behind the atomic destruction of two cities – and how the Target Committee justified it at the time.

By: Paul Ham
Producer: Audible Studios
Read by: Andrew Martin
Imprint: Bolinda/Audible Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781489342324
ISBN 10: 148934232X
Publication Date: 01 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Ham is the author of the highly acclaimed Kokoda and the Australia correspondent of the London Sunday Times. He was born and educated in Australia and lives in Sydney, having spent several years working in Britain as a journalist and publisher. Ham's Passchendale won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Andrew Martin is a writer, known for Timeshift (2002), Modern Marvels (1993) and Great Continental Railway Journeys (2012)