Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945

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.

• | Author: John Lewis Gaddis
• | Publisher: OUP Oxford
• | Publication Date: May 27, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0198294689
• | ISBN-13: 9780198294689