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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: Sources

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Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam; the use of the atomic bomb and the American confrontation with Soviet power.. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Print.

Alperovitz, Gar. The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth. New York: Knopf, 1995. Print.

Dower, John W.. War without mercy: race and power in the Pacific war. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print.

Frank, Richard B.. Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1999. Print.

Fussell, Paul. Thank God for the atom bomb, and other essays. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. Print.

Fussell, Paul. Wartime: understanding and behavior in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Print.

Hachiya, Michihiko, and Warner Lee Wells. Hiroshima diary ; the journal of a Japanese physician, August 6-September 30, 1945. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1955. Print.

Hein, Laura Elizabeth, and Mark Selden. Censoring history citizenship and memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. Print.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1989. Print.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the physical, medical and social effects of the atomic bombings. London: Hutchinson, 1981. Print.

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Stimson, Henry L., and McGeorge Bundy. On active service in peace and war. New York: Harper, 1948. Print.

Summer cloud: A-bomb experience of a girls' school in Hiroshima. Tokyo: SAN-YU-SHA, 1977. Print.

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Wyden, Peter. Day one: before Hiroshima and after. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. Print.

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