Verified by Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg

Author:Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg [Caulfield, Mike & Wineburg, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REF000000 REFERENCE / General, REF020000 REFERENCE / Research, COM013000 COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy, COM060000 COMPUTERS / Internet / General
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

It appears on historynewsnetwork.org, a site for history buffs out of the College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. The authors argue that when the bombs were dropped, the Japanese were already on the “verge of defeat.” Surrender, claim authors Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace, “could likely have been achieved without the atomic bomb.”17

A bold claim that, if true, could have prevented untold human suffering. It’s not quite what you remember from your history books. Then again, textbooks lag years—sometimes decades—behind the latest scholarship. Is this what the latest research says? Would a room full of historians nod in unison?

Wikipedia’s entry on the “Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” is long—excruciatingly long. It runs thirty-seven pages, with a five-page bibliography and over 350 references. It’s easy to get lost. Since our goal is to read the room, not immerse ourselves in every detail, we do a quick scan of the table of contents. Near the end, we spy a subsection called “Debate over the Bombings.” It’s blissfully short. Two paragraphs.

The first sentence hints that things are, well, let’s just say a bit more complicated than authors Kuzmarov and Peace let on. The role of the bombings, according to Wikipedia, are “the subject of scholarly and popular debate.”18

The short section lays out three positions:

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