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The bomb : presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war  Cover Image Book Book

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

Kaplan, Fred M., (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982107291 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Nuclear weapons > Government policy > United States > History.
Nuclear arms control > Government policy > United States > History.
Nuclear disarmament > United States.
National security > United States.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch 355.021709 Kap 31681010185064 NONFIC Available -

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