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Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb - Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 (Hardcover)
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Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb - Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 (Hardcover)
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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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