N: New York Times, April 13, 1945.
PP: Truman.
31
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, King, Strudwick, Biel, Beser, Gackenbach, Grennan, Perry, Caron, Sweeney, Spitzer, Olivi.
B: We Dropped the A-Bomb (Miller/Spitzer).
D: Letters, quoted by Huie from Bowen and Thornhill, in The Hiroshima Pilot.
PP: Spitzer’s diary.
32
AI: Asada, Arisue, Oya, Yokoyama, Maruyama, Yasuzawa.
B: The Fall of Japan (Craig); Hirohito (Mosley); Japan Subdued (Feis).
D: USSBS.
N: New York Times, August 8, 1976.
PP: Asada.
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B: Now It Can Be Told (Groves); Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (Jungk); The Great Decision (Amrine); On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy).
D: Memo, Groves to Stimson, April 23, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Groves to file, April 25, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Stimson to Truman, April 25, 1945 (unpublished); letter, Stimson to Truman, April 24, 1945.
34
AI: Hashimoto, Shima, Kosakai.
B: Sunk (Hashimoto); The Hiroshima Memoirs.
D: USSBS.
35
AI: Maruyama, Oya, Yanagita.
B: The Fall of Japan (Craig); Hirohito (Mosley); Japan Subdued (Feis); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); Year of Decisions (Truman); The Knights of Bushido (Russell); History of the U.N. War Crimes Commission (H.M.S.O., 1948); Imperial Tragedy (Coffey).
D: Notes for the Interrogation of Prisoners of War, IJA, issued on August 6, 1943; reports from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through November 1948; reports from the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, 1946; USSBS.
36
AI: Tibbets.
D: Report of Target Committee, May 12, 1945 (unpublished).
PP: Beser.
37
AI: Tibbets, Beser.
B: On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy); The Great Decision (Amrine); The Fall of Japan (Craig); Atomic Quest (Compton); A History of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (Hewlett/Anderson); Speaking Frankly (Byrnes); Now It Can Be Told (Groves); A Peril and a Hope (Smith) for full text of the Franck Report; Command Decisions (Morton).
D: Memo, Samford to Chief of Staff, Twentieth Air Force, May 5, 1945 (unpublished); Interim Committee Notes and Minutes, May 1, May 4, May 9, May 15, May 18, May 31, June 1, 1945 (all unpublished); “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” extracted from Command Decisions, published by the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1971; memo, Groves to Marshall, June 12 (unpublished); Harrison-Bundy Files; Memo, Groves to Secretary of War on Szilard, October 29, 1945 (unpublished); MED TS Files (unpublished).
M: Harper’s Magazine, vol. 194 (no. 1161), February 1947; U.S. News & World Report, vol. 1 (no. 49), August 15, 1960; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 26, June 1970, and vol. 31, February 1975.
T: Groves.
38
AI: Lewis, Duzenbury, Stiborik, Nelson, Caron.
B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); The Great Decision (Amrine); The Fall of Japan (Craig); On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy); The Glory and the Dream (Manchester); The Challenge to American Foreign Policy (McCloy).
D: Memo, Chief of Staff, of Olympic invasion plan for Japan (June 1945), and staff study, Coronet invasion plan of same month (both unpublished); Recommended Bombing Program Study, May 1945 (unpublished); “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” extracted from Command Decisions.
PP: Lewis (documents and letters); Caron (notes).
T: Eric Sevareid in conversation with John J. McCloy (“CBS News Special,” July 20, 1975).
39
AI: Yokoyama, Imoto, Oya, Endo, Kosakai, Genda, Miura.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs.
D: Reports from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through November 1948 in relation to Hata; USSBS.
40
AI: Tibbets, LeMay, Lewis, Caron, Nelson, Duzenbury, Stiborik.
B: Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
D: Preliminary report on operational procedures by D. M. Dennison, May 5, 1945 (unpublished); notes on initial meeting of Target Committee, April 27, 1945 (unpublished); Twentieth Air Force target reports and summaries (unpublished); USAAF target photographs (unpublished).
PP: Lewis (letters); Caron (notes).
ACCELERATION
1
AI: Imai, Saito.
B: The U.S. Marines and Amphibious Warfare (Isley); History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two (Morison); The Two-Ocean War (Morison).
M: Saturday Evening Post, December 23, 1944.
2
AI: Tibbetts, LeMay.
D: Memos, June 10 and July 21, Kirkpatrick to Groves (both unpublished); CINCPAC analysis of air operations, July 1944 (unpublished); VII AAF Intelligence Summary, No. 43 (unpublished); USSBS interrogations of Fuchida; Report on N.A.B. Tinian (unpublished).
3
AI: Lewis, Stiborik, Caron, Nelson, Duzenbury, Beser, Gackenbach.
D: Map of Tinian, Sixth Naval Construction Brigade (unpublished); Short Narrative History of the 509th Group (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album.
PP: Lewis (letters); Caron and Nelson (notes).
4
AI: Arisue, Oya.
B: Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); The Fall of Japan (Craig); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Imperial Tragedy (Coffey); Hirohito (Mosley).
5
AI: Perry, Beser, Lewis, Jeppson, van Kirk, Duzenbury, Nelson.