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Searching for Historical Sources and Scholarship Assignment Instructions Kimberly Perez HIST501 Search Terms: atomic bomb world war 2 results from Jerry Falwell Library of JFL Books Gordin, Michael D. Five Days in August How World War II Became a Nuclear War . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Miscamble, Wilson D. The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Articles Lorenz, A. L., Jr. “Truman and the Press Conference.” Journalism Quarterly 43, no. 4 (September 1966): 671. Stimson, Henry "Hiroshima: why Truman dropped the atomic bomb on Japan." States News Service , August 6, 2019. Search terms: Truman Atomic bomb Results from JFL America: History and Life database Books Anderson, Oscar E., Jr. 1964. “International Control of the Atom: Roots of a Policy.” In A Festschrift for Frederick B. Artz , 207–27. Gordin, Michael D. 2007. “Coda: On the Scholarly Literature.” Five Days in August, January, 141–44.

Articles Bernstein, Barton J. 1992. “Writing, Righting, or Wronging the Historical Record: President Truman’s Letter on His Atomic Bomb Decision.” Diplomatic History 16 (1): 163–73. Walker, J. Samuel. 2005. “Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground.” Diplomatic History 29 (2): 311–34. Primary sources from “Five Days in August” Giangreco, D. M. "''A Score of Bloody Okinawas and Iwo Jimas'': President Truman and Casualty Estimates for the Invasion of Japan." Pacific Historical Review 72 , no. 1 (02, 2003): 93-132. Walker, J. S. (2005). Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground . Diplomatic History, 29 (2), 311–334. Bernstein, Barton J. “Roosevelt, Truman, and the Atomic Bomb, 1941-1945: A Reinterpretation.” Political Science Quarterly 90 , no. 1 (1975): 23–69. Stimson, Henry L. "The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb." SAIS Review 5, no. 2 (Summer, 1985): 1. Truman, Harry S . Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States : Harry S. Truman : Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President , April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953. Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., (1945). JCS Secretary, “Minutes of Meeting held at the White House, June 18, 1945” CCS File, RG218, US National Archives (1945). Primary sources from “The Most Controversial Decision : Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan” Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 Memoirs by Harry S. Truman : Year of decisions (vol. 1) New York : Doubleday 1955 Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 , Speaking Frankly, New York ; London :Harper & Brothers Publishers (1947) Gar Alperovitz and Robert L. Messer, "Correspondence: Marshall, Truman, and the Decision to Drop the Bomb," International Security 16 (Winter 1991/1992): 204-14. Grew, Joseph, “Grew to the President, Analysis of Memorandum Presented by Mr. Hoover, June 13, 1945” Record Group 107, Office of the Secretary of War, Formerly Top Secret

Correspondence of Secretary of War Stimson (“Safe File”) , July 1940-September 1945, box 8, Japan (After December 7/41) Barton J. Bernstein, “Truman at Potsdam: His Secret Diary,” Foreign Service Journal , July/August 1980. Compton, Arthur B. , “Memorandum on `Political and Social Problems,’ from Members of the `Metallurgical Laboratory’ of the University of Chicago,” June 12, 1945, Secret RG 77, MED Records, H-B files, folder no. 76 . Primary Sources from “Recent Literature on Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground.” Alperovitz, Gar; Tree, Sanho, The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth by New York: Knopf (1995). Barton J. Bernstein “A postwar myth: 500,000 U.S. lives saved”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 42:6, 38-40, (1986). Lincoln, George A., “General George A. Lincoln to General Hull, June 4, 1945” , enclosing draft, Top Secret Record Group 165, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, American-British-Canadian Top Secret Correspondence, Box 504, ABC 387 Japan (15 Feb. 45) D. M. Giangreco, "Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications," Journal of Military History 61 (July 1997): 521-82; D. M. Giangreco Stimson, Henry L., “Foreign Relations of the United States: The Conference of Berlin, 2:1267-71;” Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York, 1947), 628. Stimson. Henry, “Henry Stimson Diary” , Sterling Library, Yale University (microfilm at Library of Congress) Stimson Diary Entries, May 14 and 15, 1945

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