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The U.S. Naval Institute mourns the passing of acclaimed historian John Prados, the 2021 Naval History Author of the Year, who died on 29 November 2022.

by Tom Lewis The Decision to Drop the Bomb This book, aimed at the 75 th anniversary of the Atomic Bombings and the end of World War II in the Pacific, is really out of its time and place. Author Tom Lewis ( The Empire Strikes South) wants to reframe the bombings, picturing them in a positive light. His whole message is really in the title – the bombs “saved” millions of people. There was a time for this argument, in the middle 1990s when the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in the Uni...