Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) - Hardcover

Sigal, Leon V.

9780801420863: Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

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ISBN 10: 0801420865 ISBN 13: 9780801420863

Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr, 1988

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When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, most Americans rejoiced that the strategy hastened the surrender of Japan. Shortly thereafter questions emerged about the necessity and morality of the nuclear attacks and whether the bombings should be seen as the end of World War II or more aptly as the beginning of the Cold War. The author skillfully untangles the bureaucratic conflicts in the U.S. and Japanese governments to show how U.S. demands for unconditional surrender and the agonized Japanese response delayed the war's end. For general readers and scholars. John H. Boyle, California State Univ., Chico
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