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,
“... no longer occur if statesmen are rational. In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution, Keir Lieber and Daryl Press suggest that these grand claims are mistaken. There have indeed been no large-scale wars, but in all other respects international politics resemble the pre-nuclear age. States with nuclear weapons don’t act as if they are immune from external ... ”