The winning weapon: The atomic bomb in the cold war, 1945-1950 - Softcover
Official documents explain why American diplomats could not capitalize on our nuclear monopoly to gain Soviet capitulations and why Truman's advisers wrongly predicted that a Soviet bomb was a generation away
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"A truly major contribution to our understanding of American nuclear policy in the years after Hiroshima. One can agree or disagree with Mr. Herken's assessments; one cannot ignore them."--McGeorge Bundy
Gregg Herken is a curator and historian at the Smithsonian Institution and has taught at Oberlin, Caltech, and Yale. He is the author of "The Winning Weapon, Counsels of War, "and "Cardinal Choices" and received a MacArthur grant for "Brotherhood of the Bomb". He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0394751604
- ISBN 13 9780394751603
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