Bibliograph

The bomb, presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war, Fred Kaplan

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The bomb, presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war, Fred Kaplan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-346) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bomb

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Fred Kaplan

Sub title

presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war

Summary

"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 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 just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today"--, Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- "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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