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100 1 $aNewman, Robert P.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88119373
245 10 $aTruman and the Hiroshima cult /$cRobert P. Newman.
260 $aEast Lansing :$bMichigan State University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9506
300 $axv, 272 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aRhetoric and public affairs series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-261) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tWhy Did Truman Drop the Bomb? --$g2.$tWas Japan Ready to Surrender? --$g3.$tWas the Policy of Unconditional Surrender Justified? --$g4.$tWhy No Warning or Demonstration? --$g5.$tWas a Second Bomb Necessary to End the War? --$g6.$tWas Dropping these Bombs Morally Justified? --$g7.$tWhy Has the "Japan-as-Victim" Myth Been So Attractive? --$g8.$tWhat if the Bomb Had Not Been Used?
520 $aThe United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to end World War II as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. That is the compelling and elegantly simple argument Robert Newman puts forward in his controversial new study of World War II's end, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. Simply stated, Newman argues that Truman made a sensible military decision. As commander in chief, he was concerned with ending a devastating and costly war as quickly as possible and with saving millions of lives.
520 8 $aYet, Newman goes further in his discussion, seeking the reasons why so much hostility has been generated by what happened in the skies over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945. The source of discontent, he concludes, is a "cult" that has grown up in the United States since the 1960s. It was weaned on the disillusionment spawned by concerns about a military industrial complex, American duplicity and failure in the Vietnam War, and a mistrust of government following Watergate.
520 8 $aThe cult has a shrine, a holy day, a distinctive rhetoric of victimization, various items of scripture and, in Japan, support from a powerful Marxist constituency.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zJapan$zHiroshima-shi.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119718
600 10 $aTruman, Harry S.,$d1884-1972.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029742
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zJapan$zNagasaki-shi.
650 0 $aAtomic bomb$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States.
651 0 $aHiroshima-shi (Japan)$xHistory$yBombardment, 1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
651 0 $aNagasaki-shi (Japan)$xHistory$yBombardment, 1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157
651 0 $aUnited States$xMilitary policy$xMoral and ethical aspects.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763
830 0 $aRhetoric and public affairs series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93116463
852 00 $bglx$hD767.25.N3$iN48 1995