For those of you who buy into the revisionist historian's view that Truman didn't order use of The Bomb because of projected casualties, but rather that that reasoning was a postwar fiction developed to hide the truth and cover the guilt, I offer this rather dry read:
D. M. Giangreco, “Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications” in Journal of Military History, 61 (July 1997): 521-82, online at:
http://theamericanpresident.us/images/projections.pdf.
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Sep 17 2014, 08:11 AM
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