Contemporary Scholarship and New Light on the A-bomb Decision(<Special Issue>Beyond Differences: International Comparison on Nuclear Histories in Japan, Korea, and the United States)

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• This essay will offer an overview of the English-language scholarship on the American decision to use atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 with a particular emphasis on recent works that seek to transcend the narrow and often bitter historiographical debate on this subject. The first fifty years of A-bomb historiography were dominated by a dispute between "orthodox" and "revisionist" historians who disagreed on the role of the bomb in ending the Pacific War and the importance of anti-Soviet factors in U.S. decision making. In the last 15 years, a number of scholars have sought to break the orthodox-revisionist deadlock by exploring new directions in A-bomb research. Two important trends chronicled in this article are the growth of a truly international history of the bomb and a closer integration of the history of science and technology with the political and military narrative of the A-bomb decision.

• 2009-12-19

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• Malloy Sean

  University Of California

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• Contemporary Scholarship and New Light on the A-bomb Decision(Beyond Differences: International Comparison on Nuclear Histories in Japan, Korea, and the United States)

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