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The atomic bomb: the critical issues
In: Critical issues in American history series
The Truman administration: a documentary history
In: Harper colophon books 120
Gen. Marshall and the atomic bombing of Japanese cities
In: Arms control today, Band 45, Heft 9, S. 32
ISSN: 0196-125X
Considering John Lewis Gaddis's Kennan Biography: Questionable Interpretations and Unpursued Evidence and Issues: John L. Gaddis, 2011, George F. Kennan. An American Life, New York, Penguin Press, xi, 800 p
In: Revue européenne des sciences sociales: cahiers Vilfredo Pareto = European journal of social sciences, Heft 52-1, S. 253-275
ISSN: 1663-4446
Analyzing and Assessing Gaddis's Kennan Biography: Questionable Interpretations and Unpursued Evidence and Issues
In: Journal of Cold War studies, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 170-182
ISSN: 1531-3298
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the book, they also raise numerous points of criticism. Two of the commentators, Barton J. Bernstein and Anders Stephanson, present extended critiques of Gaddis's biography. The forum concludes with a reply by Gaddis to all the commentaries, especially those by Bernstein and Stephanson.
Analyzing and Assessing Gaddis's Kennan Biography: Questionable Interpretations and Unpursued Evidence and Issues
In: Journal of Cold War studies, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 170-182
ISSN: 1520-3972
Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the book, they also raise numerous points of criticism. Two of the commentators, Barton J. Bernstein and Anders Stephanson, present extended critiques of Gaddis's biography. The forum concludes with a reply by Gaddis to all the commentaries, especially those by Bernstein and Stephanson. Adapted from the source document.
Looking Back - Reconsidering the Perilous Cuban Missile Crisis 50 Years Later - Fifty years after the fact, the Cuban missile crisis still prompts questions on a range of issues, from the reliability of history to the role of ethical thinking during a national security crisis
In: Arms control today, Band 42, Heft 8, S. 39-39
ISSN: 0196-125X
Reconsidering the "Atomic General": Leslie R. Groves
In: The journal of military history, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 883-920
ISSN: 1543-7795
Reconsidering the "Atomic General": Leslie R. Groves
In: The journal of military history, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 883-920
ISSN: 0899-3718
Understanding Decisionmaking, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Review Essay
In: International security, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 134-164
ISSN: 1531-4804
CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE - Understanding Decisionmaking, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Review Essay
In: International security, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 134-164
ISSN: 0162-2889
Reconsidering "Invasion Most Costly": Popular‐History Scholarship, Publishing Standards, and the Claim of High U.S. Casualty Estimates to Help Legitimize the Atomic Bombings
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 220-248
ISSN: 1468-0130
This is a critique of an article in the popular military magazine U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (August 1995) by journalist/historians Norman Polmar and Thomas Allen. Those two coauthors argued for high casualty numbers in the November 1945 invasion of Japan in order to justify the atomic bombings. Because their article is severely flawed, because it appeared in a popular military journal, because it won a prize and is likely to be regarded as authoritative, and because it was conceived to justify the atomic bombings, it warrants serious critical examination. This critique examines, among other problems, the two coauthors' misreading of sources, their reliance upon some dubious materials, their neglect of some important documentary evidence, and their questionable reasoning and conclusions. Ultimately, this critque also discusses the social/political functions of Polmar and Allen's article, and briefly raises some questions about standards in scholarship and in publishing. This critique is based upon very substantial archival research, as well as the use of the Freedom of Information Act, and considerable knowledge of the A‐bomb literature, the casualty‐estimates literature, and the scholarship on the Smithsonian's ill‐fated Enola Gay exhibit.
Reconsidering Truman's claim of 'half a million American lives' saved by the atomic bomb: The construction and deconstruction of a myth
In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 54-95
ISSN: 1743-937X