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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

John Newhouse

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Description:War and Peace in the Nuclear Age is a major work of modern history: the story of the crises and the confrontations, the key decisions, and the personalities behind the development of the nuclear policy that has determined the course of events over the past half-century.John Newhouse tells the story of the nuclear era in a narrative profound in its insights, alive with anecdote, understanding in its human portrayals. He takes us from Roosevelt to Reagan, from Stalin to Gorbachev, from Einstein's 1939 letter warning F.D.R. of the danger posed by nuclear fission to the genesis and politics of Star Wars — though five perilous decades.Drawing on newly released documents, scores of interviews, and exhaustive research, Newhouse gives us the richest and most cogent account we have of the fierce conflict over ways of managing the awesome potential of nuclear weaponry, of the domestic and international political tensions that arose from it, and of the struggle — a political tug-of-war that persists today — between the Soviet Union and the United States for nuclear supremacy.Here are: life within the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, the egos, the consciences, the brilliance. . .how it came about that Truman dropped not just one, but two Japanese cities, and how his decision to create the hydrogen bombs was reached. . .the launching of Sputnik, the resulting blow to American pride, and America's relentless push for technological superiority. . .the nuclear programs of Britain, France, and China, and efforts of others to join the club. . .the contentious Kennedy-Khrushchev relationship most sharply dramatized in their test of wills in Berlin and in the Cuban Missile Crisis. From the storm-tossed SALT negotiations and the rise and fall of détente, Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and the failed Reagan-Gorbachev meeting at Reykjavik. Newhouse brings us through the 1980s, through the slow, uncertain, far from predictable evolution of a new Soviet-American diplomacy that carries with it some shaky prospects for nuclear arms control.Throughout, Newhouse concentrates on the radical and unprecedented ways in which the conduct of human affairs has been affected by the very existence of nuclear weapons; how they have been affected by the very existence of nuclear weapons; how they have altered the relations among allied as well as adversary governments; how these weapons have, paradoxically, thus far "deterred" world war; and how they have profoundly changed contemporary thinking about war and peace.Masterly in its scope, in its detail, in its scholarship, and in its storytelling power, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age gives us a new, powerful — and necessary — understanding of our complex nuclear world and the mortal challenges we all face.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. To get started finding War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age is a major work of modern history: the story of the crises and the confrontations, the key decisions, and the personalities behind the development of the nuclear policy that has determined the course of events over the past half-century.John Newhouse tells the story of the nuclear era in a narrative profound in its insights, alive with anecdote, understanding in its human portrayals. He takes us from Roosevelt to Reagan, from Stalin to Gorbachev, from Einstein's 1939 letter warning F.D.R. of the danger posed by nuclear fission to the genesis and politics of Star Wars — though five perilous decades.Drawing on newly released documents, scores of interviews, and exhaustive research, Newhouse gives us the richest and most cogent account we have of the fierce conflict over ways of managing the awesome potential of nuclear weaponry, of the domestic and international political tensions that arose from it, and of the struggle — a political tug-of-war that persists today — between the Soviet Union and the United States for nuclear supremacy.Here are: life within the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, the egos, the consciences, the brilliance. . .how it came about that Truman dropped not just one, but two Japanese cities, and how his decision to create the hydrogen bombs was reached. . .the launching of Sputnik, the resulting blow to American pride, and America's relentless push for technological superiority. . .the nuclear programs of Britain, France, and China, and efforts of others to join the club. . .the contentious Kennedy-Khrushchev relationship most sharply dramatized in their test of wills in Berlin and in the Cuban Missile Crisis. From the storm-tossed SALT negotiations and the rise and fall of détente, Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and the failed Reagan-Gorbachev meeting at Reykjavik. Newhouse brings us through the 1980s, through the slow, uncertain, far from predictable evolution of a new Soviet-American diplomacy that carries with it some shaky prospects for nuclear arms control.Throughout, Newhouse concentrates on the radical and unprecedented ways in which the conduct of human affairs has been affected by the very existence of nuclear weapons; how they have been affected by the very existence of nuclear weapons; how they have altered the relations among allied as well as adversary governments; how these weapons have, paradoxically, thus far "deterred" world war; and how they have profoundly changed contemporary thinking about war and peace.Masterly in its scope, in its detail, in its scholarship, and in its storytelling power, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age gives us a new, powerful — and necessary — understanding of our complex nuclear world and the mortal challenges we all face.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. To get started finding War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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