The bomb : presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war / Fred Kaplan.
Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staffs Tank in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold storiesbased on exclusive interviews and previously classified documentsof how Americas presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today. Kaplans historical research and deep reporting will stand as the permanent record of politics. Discussing theories that have dominated nightmare scenarios from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kaplan presents the unthinkable in terms of mass destruction and demonstrates how the nuclear war reality will not go away, regardless of the dire consequences. -- Provided from Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982107291
- ISBN: 1982107294
- Physical Description: 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster. 2020.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "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". |
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| Madison Main Library | NF 355 KAP (Text) | 30229101163391 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
