TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaplan,Fred M.
TI  - The bomb: presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war 
SN  - 9781982107291
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Nuclear arms control
KW  - Nuclear disarmament
KW  - National security
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-346) and index; "Killing a nation" -- The race begins -- The crises -- "This goddamn poker game" -- Madman theories -- Bargaining chips -- "A super idea" -- Pulling back the curtain -- "A shrimp among whales" -- "Let's stipulate that this is all insane" -- "Fire and fury"
N2  - "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan 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 in Omaha 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, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until now." -- Front flap
ER  -