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Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945
This book is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of the leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a disse...more
Hardcover, 408 pages
Published
May 27th 1999
by Oxford University Press, USA
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This book is a compilation of some very good essays on nuclear diplomacy and was very useful to me while writing a paper on the topic as well as a speech I gave. I mainly relied upon the articles on Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy and both were excellent. Each provided a good summary of the presidents' views on nuclear weapons and how they used them during their administrations, provided ample support for their arguments, and had excellent analysis. Bibliographic footnotes are very good...more
Crazy weird professor in undergrad, but this book rocked ...
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