Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945

by John Lewis Gaddis (Editor), Philip H. Gordon (Editor), Ernest R. May (Editor)

This book is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most widely debated questions in international 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 dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.

408 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1999