Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945

by Philip H. Gordon, John Lewis Gaddis, Ernest R. May

This book is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of the leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198294689
• ISBN13: 9780198294689
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"