The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb

from stevesmits

Nuclear strategy during the Cold War had on its face a kind of Alice in Wonderland logic. Having thousands of weapons, enough to eradicate entire civilizations, was safer than not having any. Eschewing promises to never launch the weapons on a first strike, despite no offensive intent to ever do ...

from bcrowl399

Everyone should read this book.

from Juva

A very detailed political history of nuclear war, policy and the small group of influential men who came together to bring nuclear proliferation to the world stage. The author pulls from many interviews, personal writings, and oral histories to give the reader a complete picture of how the very m...

from stevesmits

Nuclear strategy during the Cold War had on its face a kind of Alice in Wonderland logic. Having thousands of weapons, enough to eradicate entire civilizations, was safer than not having any. Eschewing promises to never launch the weapons on a first strike, despite no offensive intent to ever do ...

from bcrowl399

Everyone should read this book.