* United States Strategic Bombing Survey. ''Summary Report: (Pacific War)'' (1946) [http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm online edition] key primary source
* VanderMuelen, Jacob. "Planning for V-J Day by the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Atomic Bomb Controversy." ''Journal of Strategic Studies'' 16 (June 1993), 227-39. AAF did not expect quick surrender; bomb was military use
* Wheeler, Keith. "''The Fall of Japan" '' (1983)
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