Fred Kaplan, “The Bomb: Presidents, generals and the secret history of the nuclear war”

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, and just barely avoided nuclear war. Discussing theories that have dominated nightmare scenarios from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kaplan demonstrates how the nuclear war reality will not go away, regardless of the dire consequences.

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