Bücher der Reihe Making of the Modern World

China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world.

The international history of the development of the atomic bomb, its first use against Japan, and the Cold War nuclear arms race that it gave rise to.