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Updated as of 2 October 05

Today in History:

On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. 

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"In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys."

A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004)

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Atomic Bomb Issues

Allen, Thomas B. and Polmar, Norman. Codename Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan. New York: Headline Books, 1995.

Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

___. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,  1995.

Brooks, Lester. Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle that Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Butow, Robert J. C. Japan's Decision to Surrender. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1954.

Craig, William. The Fall of Japan. New York: Galahad Books, 1967.

Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1999.

Groves, Leslie M. No It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Da Capo Books, 1962.

Harwit, Martin. An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay. New York: Copernicus, 1996.

Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Knebel, Fletcher and Bailey, Charles W. III. No High Ground. New York: Bantam, 1960.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima. New York: Random House, 1967.

Lifton, Robert Jay and Mitchell, Greg. Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial. New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1995.

Nobile, Philip. Judgment at the Smithsonian: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New York: Marlowe and Company, 1995.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

___. Dark Sun: Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Sherwin, Martin J. A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

Sigal, Leon V. Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Skates, John Ray. The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

Takaki, Ronald. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.

Thomas, Gordon and Witts, Max Morgan. Enola Gay. New York: Stein and Day, 1977.

Walker, J. Samuel. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Wilcox, Robert K. Japan's Secret War: Japan's Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb. New York: Marlowe and Company, 1995.

Wyden, Peter. Day One: Before Hiroshima and After. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.