Article: WHY WE DROPPED THE BOMB

Article: The atomic bombing of Japan: Forever changed the meaning ...
Journal of Electronic Defense;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...I had been waiting along with everybody else when shortly after noon on August 1, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets came and told me that the mission would be carried out on August 6, weather permitting. Tibbets would fly the strike aircraft, soon to be named Enola Gay, carrying the bomb. After rendezvous

Article: To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human ...
Parameters;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... mass incineration of Japan's cities put an ... in concluding that strategic bombing between 1914 and ... Eighth Air Force. Strategic bombing wrecked much of the ... In the case of Japan, strategic bombing, with the tremendous ...

Article: Abolish the Air Force: what it does on its own--strategic ...
The American Prospect;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... air defenses in a strategic bombing campaign designed ... campaign expanded to Japan after Pacific bases ... chiefs believed that strategic bombing would win the war ... mastermind of the strategic bombing campaign against Japan, decided that ...

Article: Strategic Bombing Brings Up Quandary Of Military ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  March 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... long-range (or "strategic") bombing inevitably means more ... defeat of Germany and Japan, when the American ... civilian centers in Japan early in World War ... centers in Germany and Japan. Many senior officers ... that became known as "strategic bombing." If this idea sounds ...

Article: Tracing the long, deadly shadow of the allied bombing ...
World War II;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... A History of Strategic Bombing By Kenneth P ... campaign against Japan in 1944 and 1945 ... comprehensive survey of strategic bombing from its inception ... consideration of Japan's feeble response ... dealing with strategic bombing (to which Werrell ...

Article: Death from the heavens; a history of strategic ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2009 ;     462 words ... ... heavens; a history of strategic bombing. Werrell, Kenneth ... historical account of strategic bombing strategies that questions ... similar strategies in Japan, Germany and Great ... operations employed in strategic bombing. ([c]2009 Book ...

Article: Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and ...
Parameters;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... American Ideas About Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945. By Tami ... International Corporation. The strategic bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan continue to generate ... doctrines that envisioned strategic bombing as a potentially decisive ...