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This article should most certainly address recent attacks on his work, most prominently: Robert James Maddox (Ed.): Hiroshima in history: the myths of revisionism.

The first chapter is an attack on Alperovitz specifically as the "godfather of revisionism" while the book goes after the whole idea that the bomb was dropped for any purpose other than as part of the impending Cold War. I do not have the book available, but it is written by serious scholars and the first few pages on amazon.com make Alperovitz seem almost treacherous in his mishandling of the evidence. Someone familiar with his work and its critics should put something in this article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.160.78.186 (talk • contribs) 21:32, 29 January 2008

I hsve the Maddox book in hand and it is pretty much as you describe it. I have added a mention of these criticisms to the article. 192.12.184.2 (talk) 18:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'll admit to not having read the book, but is it true that, as this review states, it is a set of reprints of essays Maddox wrote over a long period of time rebutting scholars with revisionist views of the bombings? And the Alperovitz writing he was rebutting was published in 1965? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if no one has criticized him in the intervening 50 years, then per WP:CRITICISM we can't just include a big section devoted to outdated attacks on him by other scholars, and if in the intervening time someone has criticized him for these (recently repeated?) problems, then a more recent source would be nice. Also, please explain how "ellipsis" is a misrepresentation of sources. The wording of the section was very poor. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 15:11, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Quite a lot has been written on the subject of the bombs since the 1960's. What's more, in the 1990's more communications intercepts were declassified that substantially undermine Alperovitz's analysis. At this point (in 2020) many historians consider Alperovitz's claims to be decisively disproven, although the debate continues. Richard Frank's book 1999 Downfall is one of the most influential works on the subject. Here's a newspaper article that Frank wrote on the subject: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/why-truman-dropped-the-bomb Nculwell (talk) 21:19, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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