предпосылки последнего оправдания О споре вокруг «решения» сбросить атомную бомбу см. Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power (New York: Penguin Books, expanded and updated edition, 1985; first published 1965); Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (New York: Vintage Books, 1986); Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003; first published 1975); Barton J. Bernstein, ed., The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1976); Stewart L. Udall, The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom (New York: Pantheon, 1994); Leon V. Sigal, Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945 (New York: Cornell University Press, 1998); Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, CT: The Pamphleteer’s Press, 1998); J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs Against Japan, 3rd revised edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Особенно интересна наряду со множеством других исследований последняя работа Цуёси Хасегавы: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2005), а также Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, ed., The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007). Scott D. Sagan and Benjamin A. Valentino, “Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants,” International Security 42, no. 1 (Summer 2017): 41–70.