To crack a nut, take one sledgehammer . . . Well, that seems to be Gar
Alperovitz鈥檚 approach in The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Fontana,
拢9.99, ISBN 0 00 638680 6). He uses a mass of documentary evidence
gathered in a great fat book to reach the unstartling conclusion that the US
dropped atomic bombs on Japan to frighten the Russians. Ho hum.
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