Nuclear warfare Books & Reviews

Preventing the Unthinkable

Robert L. Gallucci | Sep 01, 2005
Graham Allison paints a frightful picture of nuclear terrorism. But all is not yet lost.

Who Won the War?

Geoffrey Smith | Mar 01, 2005
In the Cold War, Reagan overreached--and hit the mark.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 01, 2003
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

Power Steering

Walter A. McDougall | Dec 01, 2002
Two optimistic portrayals of the international future--by political scientists Joseph Nye and Michael Mandelbaum--go under a historian's scalpel.

Riding the Tiger

Henry S. Rowen | Mar 01, 2001
Preventing the spread of atomic weaponry is less in our control than we think.

Banal and Dubious

Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 01, 2000
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.

You Had To Be There

Walter Laqueur | Dec 01, 1999
A legacy besmirched: an ill-informed portrait of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Reagan's Plan

Kiron K. Skinner | Jun 01, 1999
Despite protestations to the contrary, Reagan did have a grand strategy.

How the West Was Spun

John O'Sullivan | Mar 01, 1999
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W

Loose Cannon

Bruce Blair | Jun 01, 1998
Whereas the principal aim of American nuclear policy during the Cold War was to deter a strong and aggressive Soviet Union, the nuclear risks we face today stem from Russian weakness.

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