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Stalin Enters the War Against Japan

Lessons of History

Catroux-Menemencioglu on European Military Equilibrium (Pre-Hiroshima)

Menemencioglu on Post-Hiroshima European Military Equilibrium

Navy Minister Yonai on the Atomic Bombs and Soviet Attack as 'Gifts from Heaven'

Premier Suzuki interrogation

Marquis Kido Kōichi on Possibility of Earlier Peace

Foreign Minister Togo interviews

Chief Cabinet Secretary Sakomizu Describes Process of Decision to Surrender

Szilard-Byrnes Memo

Asahi Reporter Ryu in Berne Opines
U.S. Will Accept Negotiated Peace to Stymie Communism in Far East
(MAGIC DS 1207, 15 July, 1945)

Asahi Reporter Ryu in Berne Again Opines
U.S. Will Accept Negotiated Peace to Stymie Communism in Far East
(MAGIC DS 1222, 30 July, 1945)

Ōnishi on Strategy to Exploit Soviet Threat

Japan's Proposal for Alliance with Russia (MAGIC DS of June 3, 1945)

Japanese View of Soviet Strategy

Sato-Togo "Peace Feelers Through the Soviet Union" Message Exchange

Japanese Army Attache Lisbon Advises Russian Attack on Manchuria a Matter of Weeks

Soviet Role in Germany's Clandestine Rearmament

Pershing Objections to 1918 Armistice

War-Weariness and the End of WWI

Arai on Potsdam Declaration Terms

Japanese Reports to Tokyo on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Damage & Countermeasures

Potsdam Proclamation Documents

Constitutions of Japan

References

Review of Alperovitz's The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb