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6 de ago. de 2015 · BARTON J. BERNSTEIN. Ever since the publication in 1965 of Gar Alperovitz's Atomic Diplomacy, scholars and laymen have developed a new interest in the relationship of the atomic bomb to wartime and postwar diplo- macy and to the origins of the Cold War.
United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing more than 115,000 people and possibly as many as 250,000, and injuring at least another 100,000. In the aftermath of the war, the bombings raised both ethical and historical questions about why and how they were used.
Barton J. Bernstein (born 1936) is Professor emeritus of History at Stanford University and co-chair of the International Relations Program and the International Policy Studies Program. He has published about early Cold War history, as well as about the history of nuclear weapons development and strategy during the 1940s and 1950s.
... During his White House tenure (1945-53), Truman's frequent explanation and general defense of his decision to drop atomic bombs encountered little mainline public criticism. And commentators...
15 de mar. de 1975 · BARTON J. BERNSTEIN is associate professor of history at Stanford University and a Hoover Peace Fellow. He has edited, and contributed to, Towards a New Past and Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration. A volume on the 1952 presidential election and a short study of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima Reconsidered, will appear in 1975.
To the Editors: In the Spring 1991 issue of International Security, Barton J. Bernstein reported that at the end of World War II, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and others briefly explored using nuclear weapons tactically in connection with plans for the possible invasion of Japan.
1 de ene. de 1999 · Reconsidering Truman's Claim Of ‘half A Million American Lives’ Saved By The Atomic Bomb The Construction And Deconstruction Of A Myth by Barton J. Bernstein
