Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-388) and index.
Longing for international control, banking on American superiority : Harry S. Truman's approach to nuclear weapons / S. David Broscious -- Stalin and the nuclear age / Vladislav M. Zubok -- John Foster Dulles' nuclear schizophrenia / Neal Rosendorf -- War no longer has any logic whatever : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the thermonuclear revolution / Andrew P.N. Erdmann -- Bear any burden? : John F. Kennedy and nuclear weapons / Philip Nash -- Nuclear education of Nikita Khrushchev / Vladislav M. Zubok and Hope M. Harrison -- Before the bomb and after : Winston Churchill and the use of force / Jonathan Rosenberg -- Between paper and real tigers : Mao's view of nuclear weapons / Shu Guang Zhang -- Charles de Gaulle and the nuclear revolution / Philip H. Gordon -- Konrad Adenauer : defence diplomat on the backstage / Annette Messemer