Danger and Survival (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: McGeorge Bundy
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1930's to the 1980's
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Vannevar Bush, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Politics, Government, Atomic bomb, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Geopolitics, Nuclear energy or power plants
- Locales: United States
McGeorge Bundy's Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years is a fascinating and important book. This comprehensive history surveys the ways national leaders have dealt with nuclear weapons, from the beginning of the nuclear era through the Reagan Administration. Bundy's message is a comforting one: We can control and live with the bomb. Bundy acknowledges that statesmen have failed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons; however, he argues that far more significant is the fact that since 1945 no such weapon has ever been used. Bundy sees the...
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