Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945

Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 by Gaddis, John Lewis. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780198294689.

This book is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? The books authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of the leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.