Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War-Fast Shipping

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

Author: Fred Kaplan

ISBN: 9781982107291

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 2020

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: Illustrated

Number of Pages: 384

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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 several 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, the military history of nuclear weapons, and the struggles within the Department of Defense and the Pentagon strategies. 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.