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49. Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, 53-4; Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 130-3.
50. Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, 56-8; Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy, 13640; Arnold A. Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), 72-3.
51. Offner, Another Such Victory, 74-6; Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, 59, 63-4; Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy, 138.
52. Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy, 154-5; Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, 67; Ralph E. Weber, ed., Talking with Harry: Candid Conversations with President Harry S. Truman (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Press,
2001), 3.
53. Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, 69-72; Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy, 155-60; Leon V Sigal, Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the
United States and Japan, 1945 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988), 154— 7; ‘Proclamation Defining Terms for the Japanese Surrender, July 26, 1945’, in Stoff, Fanton, and Williams, The Manhattan Project, 215—16.
54. John W Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986), 80—1; Ronald Takaki, Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995), 71-100; John D Chappell, Before the Bomb: How America Approached the End of the Pacific Wjr (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1997), 16, 18; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power,
141.
55. Dower, War without Mercy, 79; Chappell, Before the Bomb, 27—8, 107; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 134; E. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 120, 152, 155 —6, 259. See also Francis B. Catanzaro, With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific: A Foot Soldier’s Story (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002), 50, 88, 129; and Patrick K. O’Donnell, Into the Rising Sun: In their own Words: World Wjr Il’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (New York: Free Press, 2002), 113—14, 127—8, 212, 236—7.
56. Takaki, Hiroshima, 96; Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 21; Groves, Now it Can Be Told, 324; Truman Diary Entry, 25 July 1945, in Merrill, Documentary History, 156.
57. See, e.g., Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy; id., The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (New York: Knopf, 1995); Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, ‘The Legend of Hiroshima’, in Bird and Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writing on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, CT: Pamphleteer’s Press, 1998), xxxi—lxxvii.
58. Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 187, 190—1, 224—5; Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy, 160; Forrestal Diary Entry, 28 July 1945, in Stoff, Fanton, and Williams, The Manhattan Project, 217.
59. Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 198; Barton J. Bernstein, ‘Roosevelt, Truman, and the Atomic Bomb, 1941—1945: A Reinterpretation’, Political Science Quarterly (Spring 1975), 23—62; Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction, 94—5; Sherry, Rise ofAmerican Air Power, 340.
60. Bernstein, ‘Roosevelt, Truman, and the Atomic Bomb’; Sigal, Fighting to a Finish, 175; Norris, Racing for the Bomb, 376.
61. Crane, Bombs, Cities, and Civilians, 11, 28—9; Frank, Downfall, 46, 257; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 292—7, 320—3.
62. Chappell, Before the Bomb, 80; O’Neill, Democracy at Wjr, 414—17; Frank, Downfall, 138—45; Minutes of a Meeting held at the White House on June 18, 1945, in Merrill, Documentary History, 76—93. For the debate concerning estimates of American casualties on Kyushu, see John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan: Alternatives to the Bomb (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994), 76—82; Barton J. Bernstein, ‘Reconsidering Truman’s Claim of‘Half a Million American Lives’ Saved by the Atomic Bomb: The Construction and
Deconstruction of a Myth’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 22/1