This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists who advocated international cooperation on nuclear matters.
Originally published in 1988.
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- ISBN10 0691022860
- ISBN13 9780691022864
- Publish Date 21 August 1988 (first published 12 February 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 452
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/4258.html