Notes - Hirohito's War
CHAPTER 37 – POTSDAM, HIROHITO AND THE ATOM BOMB
1 Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atom Bomb (Touchstone, New York, 1998) p.714
2 Ibid., p.714
3 Ibid., p.711
4 Regan, Donald T., For the Record (Hutchinson, London, 1998) p.120
5 Ham, Paul, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and their Aftermath (Black Swan, London, 2013) p.151
6 Ibid., p.137
7 Ibid., p.138
8 Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb, p.580
9 Ham, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, p.129
10 Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb, p.566
11 Ibid., p.566
12 Ibid., p.657
13 Ibid., p.657
14 Ham, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, p.251
15 Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb, p.664
16 Ibid., p.672
17 McCullough, David, Truman (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992)
p.412
18 Ibid., p.447
19 Ibid., p.415
20 Alperovitz, Gar, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Vintage Books, New York, 1995) p.334
21 Ibid., p.331-332
22 Ibid., p.331
23 Ibid., p.329
24 Acheson, Dean, The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953-1956: A Personal Account (New York: Doubleday, 1963) p. 312-313
25 Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, Introduction
26 Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (Random House, New York, 1999) p.215
27 Ibid., p.232
28 Potsdam Declaration 26 July 1945
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Frank, Downfall, p.210
35 McCullough, Truman, p.456
36 The Telegraph, 14 November 2015: www.telegraph.co.uk
37 Hamby, Alonzo, The Decision to Drop the Bomb (Journal of History, Vol. 84, no.2, September 1997)
38 McCullough, Truman, p.439
39 Bix, Herbert, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Harper Collins, New York, 2001) p.513
40 Aperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, p.334
41 Ambrose Stephen E. and Douglas G. Brinkley, eds., American Foreign Policy since 1938 (Penguin, New York, 8th Revised Edition, 1997) p.47
42 Spencer Weart and Gertrud Szilard, Leo Szilard: His version of the Facts (MIT Press, 1978) p.184
43 Messer, Robert, The End of an Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman, and the Origins of the Cold War (The University of North Carolina Press, 2011) p.105
44 Zhukov, Georgii Kontantinovich, The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (Delacorte Press, New York, 1971) p.674-675
45 Zhukov, Georgi K., The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1971) p.674-675
46 McCullough, Truman, p.383
47 Ibid., p.384
48 Ibid., p.444
49 Chace, James, Acheson, The Secretary of State who Created the American World (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998) p.120
50 Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, p.333
51 Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation, My Years in the State Department (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1965) p.113
52 Wellerstein, Alex, The Third Shot and Beyond (1945), 25 April 2012: www.blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
53 Compton A.H., E.O. Lawrence, J.R. Oppenheimer, and E. Fermi, Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons (US National Archives, Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Manhattan Engineer District, Harrison-Bundy File, Folder 76)
54 Ham, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, p.189-90
55 Ibid., p.190
55 Bix, Hirohito, p.509
56 Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb, p.697
57 Churchill, Winston S., Triumph and Tragedy (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953) p.638-639
58 Zhukov, The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov, p. 674-675
59 McCullough, Truman, p.443
60 Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, p.327
61 Ibid., Introduction
62 McCullough, Truman, p.456
63 Ibid., p.456
64 Ibid., p.456
65 Rhodes, The Making of the Atom Bomb, p.698
66 Bix, Hirohito, p.509
67 Ham, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, p.127
68 Bernstein, Barton J., Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little Known near Disasters, and Modern Memory (Diplomatic History, 19 March, 1995) p.235
69 Frank, Downfall, p.257
70 McCullough, Truman, p.413
71 Frank, Downfall, p.272
72 Ibid., p.288
73 McCullough, Truman, p.459
74 Frank, Downfall, p.296
75 Ibid., p.299
76 Bix, Hirohito, p.517
77 Danchev, Alex and Daniel Todman, eds., Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord, War Diaries 1939 – 1945 (Phoenix, London, 2002) p.716
78 Behr, Edward, Hirohito, Behind the Myth (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989) p.393
79 Storry, Richard, A History of Modern Japan (Penguin Book, 1991) p.517
80 Frank, Downfall, p.302
81 McCullough, Truman, p.460
82 Frank, Downfall, p.304
83 Bailey, Paul J., Post War Japan: 1945 to the Present (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) p.21
84 Hastings, Max, Nemesis, The Battle for Japan 1944-5 (Harper Perennial, London, 2008) p.555
85 Frank, Downfall, p.311
86 Ibid., p.315
87 Frank, Downfall, p.319
88 Bailey, Post War Japan, p.21
89 Behr, Hirohito, p.377