Ebook {Epub PDF} The Bomb: Presidents Generals and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan

From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” . The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. Fred Kaplan. Simon Schuster, $30 (p) ISBN Slate columnist Kaplan . It’s an interesting look at the strategies behind nuclear weapons, specifically how a country might weaponized the threat of nuclear force without ever actually deploying nuclear weapons. Kaplan covers the nuclear arms race that accompanied the Cold War, the rise of the civilian wing of the war planning bureaucracy, the power struggle between the Navy and Air Force for control of the nuclear weapons Estimated Reading Time: 10 mins.

The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War - Kindle edition by Kaplan, Fred M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. Fred Kaplan's excellent new volume, "The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War," will test this proposition. Plenty of characters (nearly all male) abound in his fast-paced easy-to-follow narrative: from Curtis LeMay, Robert McNamara, John Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, and so on to Barack Obama and. This piece is adapted from Fred Kaplan's new book, The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. Recently in War Stories Is Russia Really About to Invade Ukraine?

It’s an interesting look at the strategies behind nuclear weapons, specifically how a country might weaponized the threat of nuclear force without ever actually deploying nuclear weapons. Kaplan covers the nuclear arms race that accompanied the Cold War, the rise of the civilian wing of the war planning bureaucracy, the power struggle between the Navy and Air Force for control of the nuclear weapons and the faulty intelligence that led to the inflated U.S. arsenal (in , it was. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents—of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the. PRESIDENTS, GENERALS, AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF NUCLEAR WAR. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents—of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about.