Dan’s research and book list
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Oppenheimer clip used by permission from NBCUniversal
NBC WHITE PAPER: DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB (1/5/1965)
Truman Library – Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S. Truman
ExComm recordings and transcripts
“Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World” by Evan Thomas
“One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War” by Michael Dobbs
“In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam” by Robert S. McNamara and Brian VanDeMark
“War” by Gwynne Dyer
“Global Catastrophic Risks” by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic
“Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety” by Eric Schlosser
“Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb” by William Poundstone
“LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay” by Warren Kozak
“Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings” by Sheldon Stern
“The Wizards of Armageddon” by Fred Kaplan and Martin J. Sherwin
“One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis” by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
“The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, Vol. 2: The Atomic Energy Years 1945-1950” by David E. Lilienthal
“Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State” by Garry Wills
“The Effects of Nuclear War” by OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESMENT Congress of the United States
“The Kremlin’s Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945-2000” by Steven J. Zaloga
“The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis” by Sheldon M. Stern
“An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963” By Robert Dallek
“Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare–The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat” by Donovan Webster
“Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation” by Lynn Eden
“In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s” by Michael S. Sherry
“The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order” by Michael Howard
“Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev” by Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov
“To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans” by by Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod
“War, Peace, and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century” by Colin S Gray
“How to Make War (Fourth Edition): A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century by James F. Dunnigan
“The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis” by James G. Blight and janet M. Lang
“Khrushchev Remembers” by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev and Strobe Talbott
“Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956” by Mr. David Holloway
“Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya
“The Culture of the Cold War” by Stephen J. Whitfield
“The Lessons of History” by Michael Howard
“Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present” by Martin Van Creveld
“Doctor at Nagasaki: My First Assignment was Mercy Killing” by Masao Shiotsuki
“The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality” by Sheldon Stern
“Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age by Francis J. Gavin
“What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy” by H. W. Brands
“A history of strategic bombing: From the first hot-air balloons to Hiroshima and Nagasaki” by Lee B Kennett
“Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” by by Gaynor Sekimori and Naomi Shohno
“Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War” by Susan Southard
“We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History” by John Lewis Gaddis
“Grand Strategies in War and Peace” by Professor Paul Kennedy
“Would the Insects Inherit the Earth? and Other Subjects of Concern to Those Who Worry About Nuclear War” by Jack C. Greene and Daniel J. Strom
“Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter’s Encounters With Nine Presidents” by Hedley Donovan
“The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History” by Philip Bobbitt
“War: Ends and Means” by War: Ends and Means
“Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons” by Joseph Cirincione
“On Thermonuclear War” by Herman Kahn and Evan Jones
“World War III: Strategies Tactics and Weapons” by John Bradley
“Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II” by Conrad C. Crane
“Strategic Nuclear War: What the Superpowers Target and Why” by William Martel and Paul L. Savage