References
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Samuel J. Walker
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Richard B. Frank
Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II, Marc Gallicchio
Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan, Herbert P. Bix
We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution
, Ms. Dale Hellegers
An excellent review of this work is available on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/25066241.
What Future for Japan, Rudolf V. A. Janssens
Beria - My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin Also borrowable at Internet Archive here.
Kokutai no Hongi: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan
Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation, Porter & Porter
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses
by M. G. Sheftall
Compelling Japan’s Surrender Without the Abomb, Soviet Entry, or Invasion: Reconsidering the US Bombing Survey’s Early-Surrender Conclusions, Barton J. Bernstein
August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, Lt. Col. David M. Glantz (PDF)
The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb, Michael Kort
From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes (Harvard East Asian Monographs) , Richard J. Smethurst 高橋是清 ―日本のケインズ その生涯と思想
Detailed Descriptions of Bomb Effects
H-Diplo Roundtable on Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
From H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
- Editor's Introduction
- Barton Bernstein
- David Holloway
- Michael Gordin
- Richard Frank
- Gar Alperovitz
- Hasegawa's Response
- A longer, book version of the above discussion:
The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects
(Columbia K=1 Project, Center for Nuclear Studies)
The Search for a Negotiated Peace: Japanese Diplomats Attempt to Surrender Japan Prior to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Justin H. Libby, World Affairs, Vol. 156, No. 1 (SUMMER 1993), pp. 35-45 (11 pages)
The Specter of Revolution: Reconsidering Japan's Decision to Surrender, Jeremy A. Yellen, The International History Review, February 2013, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 205-226
Japan's Delayed Surrender: A Reinterpretation, Herbert P. Bix
Diplomatic History, Vol. 19, No. 2 (SPRING 1995), pp. 197-225 (29 pages)
U.S. National Archives Links to Atomic Bomb Decision Documents
Revisionists like to claim that Eisenhower voiced to Stimson at Potsdam strong objections to the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese (and, implicitly, that his opinion was based on relevant knowledge and had great value). The reality is rather different, as described in detail here.