The Wizards of Armageddon

Mr Fred Kaplan; Martin J Sherwin
Stanford University Press
9780804718844
0-8047-1884-9

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists.

read more…

of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.