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| Description | Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945
is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most important and widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War?
Many scholars and much conventional wisdom assumes that nuclear deterrence has prevented major power war
since the end of the Second World War; this remains a principal tenet of US strategic policy today. Others challenge this assumption, and argue that major war would have been `obsolete' even without the bomb.
This book tests these propositions by examining the careers of ten leading Cold War statesmen--Harry S Truman; John Foster Dulles; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Josef Stalin;
Nikita Krushchev; Mao Zedong; Winston Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; and Konrad Adenauer--and asking whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of these leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller
challenges this thesis.
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Readership: Scholars and students of International Relations, Development Studies, Political and Social History. Defence analysts, journalists, and policy makers
| Contents |
Introduction by Ernest May
1.
`War No Longer Has Any Logic Whatever': Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Thermonuclear Revolution
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Andrew P. N. Erdmann
2.
Longing for International Control, Banking on American Superiority: Harry S Truman's Approach to Nuclear Energy
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S. David Broscious
3.
Stalin and the Nuclear Age
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Vladislav M. Zubok
4.
John Foster Dulles' Nuclear Schizophrenia
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Neil Rosendorf
5.
Bear Any
Burden?: John F. Kennedy and Nuclear Weapon
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Philip Nash
6.
The Nuclear Education of Nikita Khrushchev
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Vladislav M. Zubok and Hope M. Harrison
7.
Before the Bomb and After: Winston Churchill and the Use of Force
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Jonathan Rosenberg
8.
Between `Paper' and `Real' Tigers: Mao's View of Nuclear Weapons
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Shu Guang Zhang
9.
Charles De Gaulle and the Nuclear Revolution
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Philip H. Gordon
10.
Konrad Adenauer: Defence Diplomat on the Backstage
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Annette Messemer
Conclusion. Nuclear Statesmen
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John Lewis Gaddis
Epilogue
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John Mueller
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Lovett Professor of History, Yale University,
Philip H. Gordon, Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Washington,
Ernest R. May, Professor of History, Harvard University, and
Jonathan Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University
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