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050		4	_aU264.3 _b.K35 2020
100	1		_aKaplan, Fred M.,
245	1	4	_aThe bomb : _bpresidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war / _cFred Kaplan.
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2020.
300			_a372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 304-346) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- "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."
520			_a"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"-- _cPublisher's description.
650		0	_aNuclear weapons _xGovernment policy _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aNuclear arms control _xGovernment policy _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aNuclear disarmament _zUnited States.
650		0	_aNational security _zUnited States.
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