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Eisenhower's Bluff - The Secret Battle Against Nuclear Annihilation of the World (Hardcover)
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Eisenhower's Bluff - The Secret Battle Against Nuclear Annihilation of the World (Hardcover)
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When General Eisenhower assumed the US presidency in 1953 the world
entered the nuclear age and certainly Winston Churchill thought
that Eisenhower would soon lead the US into another war. Based on
declassified archive material, Ike's Bluff tells for the first time
the real story. In fact, the opposite happened to Churchill's
fears. Eisenhower realised the devastating consequences of a
nuclear conflict well ahead of the other world powers. His broad
smile hid a brilliant, ruthless tactician. He guided a fractious
world through a period when the full consequences of the Bomb were
only slowly realised. Harold Macmillan, with whom he had a close
friendship, ruefully remarked that Britain would be wiped off the
map with only 8 bombs. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own
generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means
of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet
yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the
survival of the world, or its end. This is the story of how he won.
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