1. Compelling Japan's surrender without the a‐bomb, soviet entry, or invasion: Reconsidering the us bombing survey's early‐surrender conclusions
2. 2. See, for example, Frank,Downfall, 343-48.
3. 3. Combined Intelligence Committee Report, "Estimate of the Enemy Situation, July 8, 1945," reprinted in Michael B. Stoff et al., eds.The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age(New York, 1991), 176.
4. 4. Perhaps the most telling comment in this regard comes from Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, whom Hasegawa quotes: "The atomic bombs and the Soviet entry into the war are, in a sense, God's gifts," because, as Hasegawa notes in clarifying Yonai's observation, "they provided an excuse to end the war" (p. 232).