| Author: | Walker, Samuel | Place: | Chapel Hill |
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| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press | Year: | 1997 |
Walker, Samuel. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan . Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
The author, historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, argues the issue, “Was the bomb necessary?” with an attempt to avoid both extremes, and says that it was necessary to end the war as quickly as possible, but not necessary to prevent an invasion of Japan and to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of American troops. 米国原子力規制委員会所属の歴史家が、原爆投下の是非について極論を退けて公平な立場で論じている。戦争の早期終結には原爆の投下は必要であったが、本土決戦を避けるためや、何百万人の米兵の命を救うために必要だったとは言えない、と主張している。`