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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Fred M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States--History.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear arms control--Government policy--United States--History.

Nuclear arms control.

Nuclear disarmament--United States.

Nuclear disarmament.

Nuclear arms control--Government policy.

History.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy.

United States.

National security--United States.

National security.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Summary:

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist 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 in Omaha 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, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until now." -- Front flap

Contents:

"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".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-346) and index.

ISBN:

9781982107291

1982107294

OCLC:

1105937787