A Tiny Sun
Tom Stevenson: Getting the Bomb, 24 February 2022
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by Fred Kaplan.
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £15, April 2021,978 1 9821 0729 1 Show More
by Fred Kaplan.
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £15, April 2021,
The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age
by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press.
Cornell, 180 pp., £23.99, June 2020,978 1 5017 4929 2 Show More
by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press.
Cornell, 180 pp., £23.99, June 2020,
“... launch a large second-strike retaliation.In this context it’s worth considering the lectures of Herman Kahn, collected in 1960 as On Thermonuclear War. Kahn believed that a cataclysmic nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union was imminent. He differed from others, though, in arguing that nuclear war need not mean mutual destruction: with careful ... ”
