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The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. By John Ray Skates. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 276. $16.95.)

President Harry Truman considered the atomic bomb a military weapon and an alternative to the invasion of Kyushu planned for I November 1945. He hoped to save American lives and to shorten the war. John Ray Skates argues that it was a psychological weapon aimed at Japan's military leaders to convince them to surrender unconditionally. Although the debate over the ethical nature of using the atomic bomb against Japan ...

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