Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy S...
Gaddis, John Lewis / Gordon, Philip H. / May, Ernest R.
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.