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Introduction / J. Samuel Walker -- Ending the war with Japan: the agony of 1945 / Richard B. Frank -- Truman, Hiroshima, and the morality of the atomic bomb / Wilson D. Miscamble -- On President Truman's use of the atomic bomb: momentum, timing, and General Groves / Robert S. Norris -- Harry S. Truman and the origins of the nuclear arms race / Martin V. Melosi -- Radioisotopes as political instruments from Truman to Eisenhower / Angela N. H. Creager -- Triumph and trouble in the first temple of the atom: the Atomic Energy Commission and the Raleigh Research Reactor / Thomas R. Wellock -- The decision to drop the bomb and Truman's nuclear legacy: concluding remarks / William Lanouette -- Nuclear energy and the legacy of Harry S. Truman: a graphic essay / Randy Sowell

Reviews the key issues still debated by traditionalist & revisionist historians concerning Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Both interpretations are assessed against new scholarship & new evidence, & an overview is provided of recent literature. Recent attempts to establish a middle-ground position are also examined that offer a welcome remedy to the oversimplified & rigid polarization that has characterized much of the heated debate since the fiftieth anniversary of the Enola Gay. K. Coddon