Is America’s Violent Century Coming to an End?
Quite the contrary: the United States, Dower argues, may have refined its techniques, but it has done nothing to minimize the brutality.
One of Hiroshima’s Objectives: To Prove the Manhattan Project Wasn’t a Money Pit
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Congress believed that the Manhattan Project was money well-spent.
Beneath Shortening the War and Shocking the Soviet Union Lay Another Reason for Hiroshima
The atomic bombs we dropped on Japan may have been all about Russia.
Review: Cultures of War
Historian John Dower illustrates the evolution of the attitudes, thoughts, and cultures that govern the conduct of modern warfare.