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

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

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 scientis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (442 p.)
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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

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