?A true page-turner.? All About History, ????? ?Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant? Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb? Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions? Road to Surrender by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas is a riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan ? a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history. At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war ?at once.? Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that...
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