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D: Reports from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through November 1948, in relation to Hata; news release, Confederate Air Force, October 1976.

N: Los Angeles Times , June 15, 1969; Japan Times , February 26, 1976; Washington Post , October 14, 1976; New York Times , May 17, 1965.

M: People magazine, August 11, 1975.

Arisue, Seizo

Asada, Tsunesaburo

Beser, Jacob

Biel, Raymond

Bock, Frederick

Brode, Robert

Caron, George

Casey, John

Cheshire, Leonard

Cole, Leon

Costa, Thomas

Costello, Edward

Downey, William

Duzenbury, Wyatt

Elsey, George

Endo, Shin

Ferebee, Tom

Fuchida, Kitaoka

Gackenbach, Russell

Genda, Minoru

Grennan, Thomas

Gruning, Wayne

Hashimoto, Mochitsura

Hatanaka, Kuniso

Hatsuko, Tominaga

Hiroto, Kanai

Iki, Haruki

Imai, Kizo

Imoto, Kumao

Jeppson, Morris

Jernigan, Norris

Kaizuka, Yoshiro

King, John

Kosakai, Yoshiteru

LeMay, Curtis

Lewis, Robert

McKnight, Charles

Maruyama, Kazumasa

Matsuoka, Masaru

Matsushige, Yoshito

Matubara, Miyoko

Miura, Hiroshi

Moritaki, Ichiro

Nasu, Yoshio

Nelson, Richard

Nizuma, Seichi

Olivi, Frederick

Osako, Ichiro

Oya, Kakuzo

Perry, Charles

Saito, Masatoshi

Sakai, Saburo

Shima, Kaoru

Slusky, Joseph

Spitzer, Abe

Stiborik, Joseph

Strudwick, James

Suzuki, Tatsusaburo

Sweeney, Charles

Takahashi, Akahiro

Takai, Sadao

Tibbets, Paul

van Kirk, Theodore

Yanagita, Hiroshi

Yasuzawa, Matsuo

Yokoyama, Tatsuo

and in correspondence

Alvarez, Luis

Lord, Edmund

Montgomery, J. B.

We owe a special debt to our translators.

In Japan, John Silver achieved the impossible, always finding an acceptable way of putting our questions, which were sometimes extremely delicate. He was simply invaluable.

Shizuko Pritchard, a native of Hiroshima, has been exceedingly helpful in maintaining through correspondence certain of our contacts there. She has also translated many documents for us.

In Tokyo, Sen Matsuda and Ko Shioya, editor in chief and deputy editor, respectively, at the Reader’s Digest , provided expert help and advice whenever we asked; they never attempted to impress upon us their personal views on the war and the bomb. We also much appreciated the help of two of their staff, Miss Katsuko Konno and Mr. Sekiya Hashimoto.

In Hiroshima, reporters Kawamoto and Kaneguchi from the Chugoku Shimbun were particularly cooperative; Yoshiteru Kosakai, chief, Historical Division, Hiroshima Library, supplied a wealth of important background information; Hideo Sasaki, director, Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, generously provided us with one of the last remaining complete sets of Hiroshima Genbaku Sensai Shi , a five-volume reference work of fundamental importance.

In Washington, D.C., as with our previous books, we benefited from the specialist guidance and information received from John Taylor at the National Archives; from Sheila McGouch at the Carnegie Institution; from Dr. D. C. Allard at the Naval Historical Center; and from air force archivist Gail Guido.

In New York, Bill Maxwell gave us unquestioned help at times when it was most needed.

In Dublin, as in the past, Bill Moloney aided us on the technical aspects of bombing.

And in London, as always, Michael Weigall was there to give us his own special kind of assistance.

A-Bomb Survivors’ Relief Organization, Hiroshima (K. Shimuza).

Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center, Maxwell, Alabama (Gloria Atkinson and Allen Striepe).

American Embassy, London.

American National Red Cross, Washington, D.C. (George Elsey, Mac Slee).

Atomic Bomb Hospital, Hiroshima (I. Sadama).

Atomic Energy Commission, Historical Office, Washington, D.C.

British Embassy, Washington, D.C. (Peter Bond).

British Library, Reference Division, London; Newspaper Library, Colindale.

Chugoku Shimbun , Hiroshima (Akira Matsuura).

Hiroshima Peace Culture Center (K. Kiyama).

Imperial Army Officers’ Club, Tokyo (Mr. Senno).

Japanese Defense Agency, Historical Division, Tokyo.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Modern Military Section (John Taylor); Historical Office, State Department, Bureau of Public Affairs; General Archives Division (Janet Hargett).

National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri.

Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. (D. C. Allard).

Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California (A. B. Christman).

New York Public Library.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York (W. R. Emerson).

Town Hall, Hiroshima (A. Takahashi).

Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri (P. H. Lagerquist).

These books, like other published material related to the subject, should be consulted with caution; Hiroshima has proved fertile ground for propagandists.

For readers interested in the aftereffects of the bomb in human terms, we recommend the documentary novel Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse (San Francisco: Kodansha, 1969).

Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.

Amrine, Michael. The Great Decision. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959.

Anders, Gunther, with Eatherly, Claude. Burning Conscience. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1962.

Arisue, Seizo. Memoirs. Tokyo: Fuyo Shobo, 1974.

Arnold, Henry H. Global Mission. 1949. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Asahi Shimbun. A-Bomb. Hiroshima Peace Culture Center, 1972.

Asahi Shimbun. Foreword to The Pacific Rivals , by E. O. Reischauer. New York: Weatherhill/Asahi, 1972.

Asbell, Bernard. When F.D.R. Died. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961.

Baldwin, Hanson W. Great Mistakes of the War. New York: Harper & Bros., 1950.

Batchelder, Robert C. The Irreversible Decision. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

Bateson, Charles. The War with Japan. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1968.

Bishop, Jim. FDR’s Last Year. New York: William Morrow, 1974; Pocket Books, 1975.

Blackett, P. M. S. Fear, War and the Bomb. Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1948.

Boyle, Andrew. No Passing Glory. London: Collins, 1955.

Braddon, Russell. Cheshire V.C. London: Evans Bros., 1965.

Bush, Vannevar. Pieces of the Action. New York: William Morrow, 1970.

Butow, Robert J. C. Japan’s Decision to Surrender. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954.

Butow, Robert J. C. Tojo and the Coming of the War. Princeton. Princeton University Press, 1961.

Byrnes, James F. Speaking Frankly. 1947. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1974.

Campbell, J. W. The Atomic Story. New York: Henry Holt, 1947.

Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War. (Esp. vol. 6.) New York: Time, 1959; Bantam Books, 1962.

Clark, R. W. The Birth of the Bomb. New York: Horizon Press, 1961.

Coffey, Thomas M. Imperial Tragedy. New York: World Publishing, 1970.

Compton, Arthur Holly. Atomic Quest. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.

Craig, William. The Fall of Japan. New York: Dial Press, 1967.