Helen Bury has just completed her PhD in Modern History under Gerard De Groot at the University of St. Andrews. She also has a Masters in International Relations from the University of Lancaster.

President Eisenhower's various nuclear initiatives, including Atoms for Peace and Open Skies, have usually been judged by historians as hopelessly naive or cynically manipulative. Dr Helen Bury, with a fresh look at evidence from a wide variety of sources, takes an entirely new approach in her analysis of Open Skies, which begins with a very simple proposition: 'what if Eisenhower was sincere?' What emerges is a fresh perspective on the Cold War of the 1950s and inevitable speculation about what might have been. This is an intelligent and engaging book about a period which deserves a new look. Gerard DeGroot, Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews and the author of The Bomb: A Life

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction Chapter IIn the Shadow of the Specialists on Violence: American Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1945 – 1953Chapter IIEisenhower and the New LookChapter IIIEisenhower, Rockefeller and the Evolution of Open Skies Chapter IVThe Aftermath of the Geneva Summit Chapter VThe Challenge to Massive RetaliationChapter VISputnik, Missiles and Open Skies Chapter VIIEisenhower’s Final Struggle Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Helen Bury has just completed her PhD in Modern History under Gerard De Groot at the University of St. Andrews. She also has a Masters in International Relations from the University of Lancaster.

President Eisenhower's various nuclear initiatives, including Atoms for Peace and Open Skies, have usually been judged by historians as hopelessly naive or cynically manipulative. Dr Helen Bury, with a fresh look at evidence from a wide variety of sources, takes an entirely new approach in her analysis of Open Skies, which begins with a very simple proposition: 'what if Eisenhower was sincere?' What emerges is a fresh perspective on the Cold War of the 1950s and inevitable speculation about what might have been. This is an intelligent and engaging book about a period which deserves a new look. Gerard DeGroot, Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews and the author of The Bomb: A Life

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction Chapter IIn the Shadow of the Specialists on Violence: American Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1945 – 1953Chapter IIEisenhower and the New LookChapter IIIEisenhower, Rockefeller and the Evolution of Open Skies Chapter IVThe Aftermath of the Geneva Summit Chapter VThe Challenge to Massive RetaliationChapter VISputnik, Missiles and Open Skies Chapter VIIEisenhower’s Final Struggle Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Helen Bury has just completed her PhD in Modern History under Gerard De Groot at the University of St. Andrews. She also has a Masters in International Relations from the University of Lancaster.

President Eisenhower's various nuclear initiatives, including Atoms for Peace and Open Skies, have usually been judged by historians as hopelessly naive or cynically manipulative. Dr Helen Bury, with a fresh look at evidence from a wide variety of sources, takes an entirely new approach in her analysis of Open Skies, which begins with a very simple proposition: 'what if Eisenhower was sincere?' What emerges is a fresh perspective on the Cold War of the 1950s and inevitable speculation about what might have been. This is an intelligent and engaging book about a period which deserves a new look. Gerard DeGroot, Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews and the author of The Bomb: A Life

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction Chapter IIn the Shadow of the Specialists on Violence: American Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1945 – 1953Chapter IIEisenhower and the New LookChapter IIIEisenhower, Rockefeller and the Evolution of Open Skies Chapter IVThe Aftermath of the Geneva Summit Chapter VThe Challenge to Massive RetaliationChapter VISputnik, Missiles and Open Skies Chapter VIIEisenhower’s Final Struggle Conclusion BibliographyIndex