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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (2825 words) |
 | Gar Alperovitz has been a presence of major significance in the study of the bomb and the endgame of World War II for a generation. |
| Alperovitz's thesis basically repeats the one pressed in his earlier Atomic Diplomacy (1965, 1985, 1994) but is stated at much greater length, much more elaborately, and with the help of no less than seven collaborators listed under his name on the title page. |
| Alperovitz refers frequently to the subsequent diplomatic correspondence between Japan's foreign minister Shigenori Togo and his ambassador to the Soviet Union, Naotake Sato, an exchange of enormous importance because United States intelligence intercepted, decoded, and made it available to American policy makers. |
| GVPT Faculty, University of Maryland (903 words) |
| Alperovitz was previously Harrison Research Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and became the first Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy in July 1999. |
| Dr Alperovitz was a Marshall Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow; and was one of five specially designated Phi Beta Kappa Fellows selected at the time the national bicentennial commemoration. |
| Alperovitz was named "Distinguished Finalist" for the Lionel Gelber Prize for one of his recent major books, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, (Knopf, 1995). |
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