Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell in America: Fifty Years of Denial (Grosset/Putnam, $25.95, ISBN 0 399 14072 7) cover some of the same ground as Takaki and Yamazake. They find that the suppression of medical reports after the bombs were dropped was part of the mythologising of the event, distancing Americans from responsibility.
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