US Strategic Bombing in WW2I am reading Robert Jay Lifton's book on
Hiroshima in
America (1996) which examines how the decision
to drop the atomic bombs on Japan was made and then what impact this decision
has had on American society since then. In the course of reading this book I was
reflecting on the success or failure of the US "strategic bombing" (i.e.
targeting entire cities with all their inhabitants) of European cities and
Tokyo, so I went looking on the web for the original documents of the post-war
assessment of the effectiveness of the strategic bombing campaign. Here is what
I found: Here is the Summary
Report for the European War ; the Summary for the Pacific War
; official documents dealing with the dropping of the nuclear
weapons on Japan ; a summary
of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings; more documents at the Digital
Library for Nuclear Issues
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Posted: Wed - April 18, 2007 at 02:09 PM |
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I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now work for a non-profit educational foundation in the US. Before moving to the US with my family I taught modern European history at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. I have studied at universities in Australia, Germany, the US, and Britain and consider myself a citizen of the world and a supporter of no particular nation state. [More]
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