NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| EL | Dwight D. Eisenhower Library |
| FRUS | Foreign Relations of the United States |
| JL | Lyndon Baines Johnson Library |
| KL | John F. Kennedy Library |
| LC | Library of Congress |
| NA | National Archives |
| NDU | National Defense University |
| SMML | Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, N.J. |
| TL | Harry S Trunian Library |
| UK-PRO | Public Record Office, United Kingdom |
CHAPTER 1: SAYONARA SANITY?
1.
Time, September 22, 1961.
2.
See Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman
Administration, and the Cold War ( Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992), for the
central premise that U.S. policy in the post-World War II world was to secure a preponderance of
power.
3.
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the
Atomic Age ( New York: Pantheon, 1985), chapter 1; Justus D. Doenecke, Not to the Swift: The Old
Isolationists in the Cold War Era ( Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1979), pp. 59-66. Clark Clifford, with
Richard Holbrooke, in Counsel to the President ( New York: Random House, 1991), pp. 59-60, says Truman's belief that an American force invading the Japanese home islands
would have taken half a million casualties made his decision an easy one. William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880- 1964 ( Boston: Little, Brown, 1978), pp. 436-438,
discusses Douglas MacArthur's casualty estimate of one million for Operation OLYMPIC, the
planned invasion of Kyushu on November 1, 1945 with 800,000 men, and Operation CORONET,
the follow-up invasion of Honshu on March 1, 1946, to take Tokyo and end the war.
4.
Richard J. Barnet, Roots of War: The Men and Institutions behind U.S. Foreign Policy ( New
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