The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

Gar Alperovitz
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
9780679762850
0-679-76285-X

Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold.

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