Decision To Use The Atomic(ISBN=9780679762850)

A massively detailed yet fascinating and readable work of scholarship. -- San Francisco Chronicle

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 War, an event that was largely responsible for the evolution of post-World War II American politics and culture.

Preface
Introduction: A Fersonal Note
BOOK ONE
The Decision
　Chapter 1: The Trajectory of Japan's Decline
　Chapter 2: General Efforts to End the War
PART I: Unconditional Surrender
　Chapter 3: April-May 1945
　Chapter 4: To June 18, 1945
　Chapter 5: June 18, 1945
　Chapter 6: From June I8 to July 2, I945
PART II: The Russian Option
　Chapter 7: Phase I: From Pearl Harbor to the Death of Roosevelt
　Chapter 8: Phase II: April 1945
　Chapter 9: Phase iiI: The New Reality
PART HI: Atomic Diplomacy
　Chapter 10: Preliminaries: April and May I945
　Chapter 00: Postponing a Confrontation with Stalin
　Chapter 12 The Interim Committee
　Chapter 13: The "Second Track" and Asia
　Chapter 14: The Concerned Scientists
PART IV: James F. Byrnes
　Chapter 15: "A Very Machiavellian Character";"An Operator"
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BOOK TWO The Myth