Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945

by John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May, Jonathan Rosenberg

Overview

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 dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198294689
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/27/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	9.39(w) x 6.44(h) x 1.15(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)

About the Author

PROFESSOR JOHN GADDIS is Professor of History at Yale

DR PHILIP GORDON is Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Washington

PROFESSOR ERNEST MAY is Professor of History at Harvard

PROFESSOR JONATHAN ROSENBERG is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University

Table of Contents

Introduction by Ernest May1. ‘War No Longer Has Any Logic Whatever': Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Thermonuclear Revolution, Andrew P. N. Erdmann2. Longing for International Control, Banking on American Superiority: Harry S Truman's Approach to Nuclear Energy, S. David Broscious3. Stalin and the Nuclear Age, Vladislav M. Zubok4. John Foster Dulles' Nuclear Schizophrenia, Neil Rosendorf5. Bear Any Burden?: John F. Kennedy and Nuclear Weapon, Philip Nash6. The Nuclear Education of Nikita Khrushchev, Vladislav M. Zubok and Hope M. Harrison7. Before the Bomb and After: Winston Churchill and the Use of Force, Jonathan Rosenberg8. Between ‘Paper' and ‘Real' Tigers: Mao's View of Nuclear Weapons, Shu Guang Zhang9. Charles De Gaulle and the Nuclear Revolution, Philip H. Gordon10. Konrad Adenauer: Defence Diplomat on the Backstage, Annette MessemerConclusion. Nuclear Statesmen, John Lewis GaddisEpilogue, John Mueller