Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 by John Lewis Gaddis (Editor), Jonathan Rosenberg (Editor), Ernest May (Editor)

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Synopsis

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.

Biography

PROFESSOR JOHN GADDIS is Professor of History at Yale

DR PHILIP GORDON is Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Washington

PROFESSOR ERNEST MAY is Professor of History at Harvard

PROFESSOR JONATHAN ROSENBERG is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University