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The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. By Wilson D. Miscamble . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 174 pp. CAD $33.95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Ivo Plsek*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

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1 See Alperovitz, Gar. 1965. Atomic diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power (New York: Simon and Schuster)Google Scholar and Alperovitz, Gar and Tree, Sanho. 1995. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (New York: Knopf)Google Scholar.