Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945

Jonathan Rosenberg, Ernest R. May, John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Robert Lovett Professor of History John Lewis Gaddis, Philip Gordon, Professor of History Ernest R May — 1999

This text uses biographical techniques to test the question: did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent World War III? It examines the careers of ten Cold War statesmen, and asks whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb.