Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland at College Park. His books on nuclear matters range from Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (1965) to The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1995).

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Articles by Gar Alperovitz

1 July 2005
Feature

Would You have Dropped the Bomb?

Martin E. MartyPervez HoodbhoyThomas DonnellyRobert L. GallucciGar AlperovitzRichard B. FrankMary PalevskyTadatoshi Akiba
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last,” wrote the French novelist Marcel Proust. In 1945, our collective state of mind was despair. World War II touched every inhabitable continent, leaving more than 50 million dead and millions of others as refugees.