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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

Fred Kaplan

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From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war--and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises--from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter," 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. Kaplan's historical research and deep reporting will stand as the permanent record of politics. Discussing theories that have dominated nightmare scenarios from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kaplan presents the unthinkable in terms of mass destruction and demonstrates how the nuclear war reality will not go away, regardless of the dire consequences.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Feb 2nd, 2021
  • Pages: 384
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9781982107307
  • Categories: • Military - Nuclear Warfare• Military - United States• Public Policy - Military Policy

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About the Author

Kaplan, Fred: - Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of five previous books, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller), 1959, Daydream Believers, and The Wizards of Armageddon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.

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Fred Kaplan
@fmkaplan
2 years

Slate's War Stories columnist, sometimes jazz critic; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon.

@gtotango And don’t miss my 2020 sequel of sorts, “The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War.”

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Shashank Joshi
@shashj
2 years

Defence editor at @TheEconomist, Visiting fellow at @warstudies King's College London.

I had no idea John Foster Dulles had offered France a pair of tactical nuclear weapons for use at Dien Bien Phu. (from Fred Kaplan’s “The Bomb”) https://t.co/NowYSVyJPR

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Brooke Gladstone
@OTMBrooke
5 years

Co-Host, Editor of WNYC's On the Media, author of "The Influencing Machine" and "The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic" and so on.

See me interview the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and husband @fmkaplan on his crucial and “surprisingly entertaining”(NYT) new book THE BOMB, Thursday 7pm @CommunityBkstr !

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