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• catalog abstract "While scholars and non-scholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb for more than half a century, rarely have they questioned the decision not to invade Japan as a means of ending World War II. Widely held beliefs about the strength of Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have justified the course of action taken by the United States. John Ray Skates, how ever, argues that the invasion plan, code named Operation DOWNFALL, has never been adequately studied to draw such a conclusion. In The Invasion of Japan, he remedies that oversight and, in doing so, disputes many myths that have grown up around the invasion strategy. Beginning with a brief overview of DOWNFALL, Skates analyzes the evolution of the invasion plan. He describes in detail the two phases of the plan, Operations OLYMPIC and CORONET; he assesses the strength of Japanese defenses; and discusses other topics that would influence an invasion - redeployment from Europe, Allied participation in the invasion, and the possible use of special weapons, especially gas. Among other revisionist findings, his research reveals a weaker state of Japanese preparedness than historians have commonly presumed and he demonstrates that the joint chiefs never objectively compared the bombing and the invasion. Significantly, Skates finds no evidence suggesting that military strategists projected casualty figures as high as those cited after the bomb's use. Rather than attributing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the supposed shortcomings of the invasion plan, Skates contends that the Allied policy of unconditional surrender was at the heart of the decision to drop the atomic bomb.".
• catalog contributor b5770445.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Beginning with a brief overview of DOWNFALL, Skates analyzes the evolution of the invasion plan. He describes in detail the two phases of the plan, Operations OLYMPIC and CORONET; he assesses the strength of Japanese defenses; and discusses other topics that would influence an invasion - redeployment from Europe, Allied participation in the invasion, and the possible use of special weapons, especially gas. Among other revisionist findings, his research reveals a weaker state of Japanese preparedness than historians have commonly presumed and he demonstrates that the joint chiefs never objectively compared the bombing and the invasion. Significantly, Skates finds no evidence suggesting that military strategists projected casualty figures as high as those cited after the bomb's use.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.".
• catalog description "Preface -- Abbreviations and Code names -- Introduction: The concept of DOWNFALL -- 1. Policies and problems in the Pacific, 1940-43 -- 2. The Pacific strategists -- 3. Hard strategic decisions, 1943-44 -- 4. Blockade, bombing, and invasion -- 5. U.S. redeployment to the Pacific -- 6. Casualties -- 7. Special weapons -- 8. Ketsu-Go: defense to the Homeland -- 9. Defense of Kyushu and the Kanto Plain -- 10. ULTRA and the invasion -- 11. Planning OLYMPIC -- 12. OLYMPIC; the forces -- 13. OLYMPIC: the assault -- 14. Operation CORONET -- 15. Allied participation -- 16. The atomic bomb and the invasion -- Conclusion.".
• catalog description "Rather than attributing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the supposed shortcomings of the invasion plan, Skates contends that the Allied policy of unconditional surrender was at the heart of the decision to drop the atomic bomb.".
• catalog description "While scholars and non-scholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb for more than half a century, rarely have they questioned the decision not to invade Japan as a means of ending World War II. Widely held beliefs about the strength of Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have justified the course of action taken by the United States. John Ray Skates, how ever, argues that the invasion plan, code named Operation DOWNFALL, has never been adequately studied to draw such a conclusion. In The Invasion of Japan, he remedies that oversight and, in doing so, disputes many myths that have grown up around the invasion strategy.".
• catalog extent "xii, 276 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Invasion of Japan.".
• catalog identifier "0872499723 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Invasion of Japan.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,".
• catalog relation "Invasion of Japan.".
• catalog spatial "Japan.".
• catalog subject "940.54/25 20".
• catalog subject "D767.2 .S56 1994".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Japan.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Abbreviations and Code names -- Introduction: The concept of DOWNFALL -- 1. Policies and problems in the Pacific, 1940-43 -- 2. The Pacific strategists -- 3. Hard strategic decisions, 1943-44 -- 4. Blockade, bombing, and invasion -- 5. U.S. redeployment to the Pacific -- 6. Casualties -- 7. Special weapons -- 8. Ketsu-Go: defense to the Homeland -- 9. Defense of Kyushu and the Kanto Plain -- 10. ULTRA and the invasion -- 11. Planning OLYMPIC -- 12. OLYMPIC; the forces -- 13. OLYMPIC: the assault -- 14. Operation CORONET -- 15. Allied participation -- 16. The atomic bomb and the invasion -- Conclusion.".
• catalog title "The invasion of Japan : alternative to the bomb / by John Ray Skates.".
• catalog type "text".