The Winning Weapon : : The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950 / / Gregg Herken.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Herken, Gregg,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 926
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)

This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists who advocated international cooperation on nuclear matters.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Princeton Edition -- Prologue -- Book One. Hiroshima and after the Atomic Bomb in Diplomacy, 1945-1946 -- 1. Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Prelude -- 2. Washington: A Direct Approach to Russia -- 3. London: The Dog that Didn't Bark -- 4. Moscow: The New Atomic Diplomacy -- Book Two. The Atomic Curtain Domestic and International Consequences of Atomic Energy, 1945-1947 -- 5. Pax Atomica: The Myth of the Atomic Secret -- 6. "Atom Spies" and Politics -- 7. The Atomic Curtain Descends -- 8. Scientists, Soldiers, and Diplomats -- 9. The Winning Weapon in the United Nations -- Book Three. Diplomacy and Deterrence the Military Dimension, 1945-1950 -- 10. Strategy and the Bomb -- 11. The War Over the Horizon -- 12. The Year of Opportunity: 1948 -- 13. Beau Geste for Berlin -- 14. The Monopoly Ends -- 15. The Race Begins -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index