The Bomb
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "Tank" in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command in Omaha to bring us the untold stories--based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents--of how America's presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until now." -- Front flap.
Contents:
"Killing a nation" -- The race begins -- The crises -- "This goddamn poker game" -- Madman theories -- Bargaining chips -- "A super idea" -- Pulling back the curtain -- "A shrimp among whales" -- "Let's stipulate that this is all insane" -- "Fire and fury".
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
Nuclear arms control -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
Nuclear disarmament -- United States.
National security -- United States.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
Nuclear arms control -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
Nuclear disarmament -- United States.
National security -- United States.
ISBN:
9781982107291
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War Kap | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War Kap | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-346) and index.