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

By:

Kaplan, Fred M

Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmISBN:

9781982107291
1982107294

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LOC classification:

U264.3 .K35 2020

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."

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-346) and index.

"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.

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