Hiroshima 60

Thank God we got the bomb before Hitler or Tojo.

Thank God we didn't have to invade Japan and take hundreds of thousands of casualities and in the process kill millions of Japanese combatants and civilians.

	Day by day objective account of what was going on in the countdown to 8/6/1945.
	Argues that the bomb was not necessary to force Japanese surrender
	A focus on the influences upon Truman's decision making. Material on how history has been written since 1945 on the subject.
	Okinawa and the lessons learned from the experience -- the awful expectation of the horrors of this battle multiplied a thousandfold on the Japanese mainland.