Atomic diplomacy : Hiroshima and Potsdam : the use of the atomic bomb and the American confrontation with Soviet power
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Atomic diplomacy : Hiroshima and Potsdam : the use of the atomic bomb and the American confrontation with Soviet power
Pluto Press, c1994
[2nd expanded ed]
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-362) and index
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Description
This book provides important new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war in Japan, as was said at the time, but to 'make the Russians more manageable'.
Drawing on recently released diaries and records of Truman, Eisenhower and others, Alperovitz re-evaluates the assumptions, hesitations and decisions that precipitated the use of atomic weapons and traces how possession of the bomb changed American strategy toward the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference and helped to set it on a course that contributed to the swift beginning of the Cold War.
Most historians of the period now agree that diplomatic considerations related to the Soviet Union played a major role in the decision to use the bomb. Atomic Diplomacy pioneered this new understanding. Today we still live in Hiroshima's shadow; this path breaking work is timely and urgent reading for anyone interested in the history - and future - of peace and war.
Table of Contents
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 1985 edition The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski
Preface
1. The Strategy of an Immediate Showdown
2. The Strategy of a Delayed Showdown
3. The Decision to Postpone a Confrontation with Stalin
4. The Far East and Two Faces of the Strategy of Delay
5. The Tactics of the Potsdam Conference (I)
6. The Tactics of the Potsdam Conference (II)
7. American Diplomacy Takes the Offensive
8. Conclusions
Appendix I: A Note on the Historical Debate Over Questions Concerning Truman's 1945 Strategy of Delay
Appendix II: Excerpts from a 1946 US Intelligence Report
Appendix III: Stimson's Unsuccessful Attempt to Change the Strategy of Delay Before Leaving Office
Appendix IV: 'Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith': A Report from the Federal Council of Churches, 1946
Appendix V: Excerpts from 'The Challenge of Peace': National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, 1983
Bibliography of Important Sources
Notes
Index
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