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'''''The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth''''' is a book by [[Gar Alperovitz]] which criticizes the U.S. decision to end the war with Japan by using [[atomic bomb]]s.<ref name=decision>Alperovitz argues that the atomic bomb was unnecessary to end World War II. [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hamby.htm] </ref>

'''''The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth''''' is a book by [[Gar Alperovitz]] which criticizes the U.S. decision to end the war with Japan by using [[atomic bomb]]s.<ref name=decision>Alperovitz argues that the atomic bomb was unnecessary to end World War II. [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hamby.htm] </ref>

Alonzo Hanby of Ohio University calls the book "a lawyer's brief, repetitively citing evidence that supports its position, ignoring anything that does not."<ref name=decision/>

The argument assumes with no evidence that Japan would have quickly surrendered. It ignores the American and Russian war plans that would have left millions of Japanese dead.

ISBN 0-679-44331-2

ISBN 0-679-44331-2

 

See also:

See also:

*[[Nagasaki]]

*[[Nagasaki]]

 

==References==

==References==

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[[Category:Books|Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, The]]

[[Category:Books|Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, The]]