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Explores ways to live and survive in a nuclear age and examines the key areas of public morality, weapons technology, and international policy.
January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power??a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold WarSpecial Report with Bret BaierThre…
In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplat…
The assumptions and attitudes behind opposing views over nuclear weapons were formed in secret during World War II during the discussions about building the bombs and then using them against urban targets. Sherwin (history, Tufts U.) argues that many of the ideas that were origi…
Robert Wirsing examines he Indian-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir. He takes as his focus the period from the effective nuclearization of the dispute in 1998 to the arrival of US forces in the region as a consequence of international intervention in Afghanistan.