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Using newly released documents, the author presents an integrated
look at American nuclear policy and diplomacy in crises from the
Berlin blockade to Vietnam. The book answers the question of why,
when the atomic bomb had been used with such devastating effect
against the Japanese Empire in 1945, American leaders put this most
apocalyptic of weapons back on the shelf, never to be used again in
anger. It documents the myopia of Potomac strategists in involving
the US in wars of attrition in Korea and Southeast Asia, marginal
areas where American vital interests were in no way endangered.
Despite the presence of hundreds, then thousands of nuclear bombs
and warheads in the nation's stockpile, the greatest military
weapon in history became politically impossible to use. And yet
overwhelming nuclear superiority did serve its ultimate purpose in
the Cold War. When American vital interests were threatened - over
Berlin and Cuba - the Soviets backed down from confrontation.
Despite errors in strategic judgement brought on by fear of
Communist expansion, and in some cases outright incompetence, the
ace in the hole proved decisive.
The Long Wait examines the history of the United States' dealings
with the United Kingdom on nuclear matters in the first dozen years
following the Second World War. Chief among the issues analyzed are
whether to share nuclear information, know-how, and technology with
the British; whether to cooperate in the control and allocation of
critical raw and nuclear materials, whether to grant the British
any right of consultation on use of American nuclear bombers based
in Britain, and on what terms to introduce into Britain American
intermediate range nuclear-tipped missiles.
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