Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945
, by Gaddis, John Lewis; Gordon, Philip H.; May, Ernest R.; Rosenberg, Jonathan- ISBN: 9780198294689 | 0198294689
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/27/1999
This book is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of the leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.