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10 produkter

1. 

   Counsels of War

   Av Gregg Herken

   E-bok, 2015

   278 kr

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   Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as hundreds of pages of …

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   The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

   Av Gregg Herken

   Häftad, 2015

   315 kr

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   Georgetown Set

   Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

   Av Gregg Herken

   E-bok, 2014

   145 kr

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   In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians who helped steer American strategy, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. …

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   Winning Weapon

   The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950

   Av Gregg Herken

   Häftad, 2014

   1358 kr

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   This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists …

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   Winning Weapon

   The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950

   Av Gregg Herken

   Inbunden, 2016

   3157 kr

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   This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists …

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   Cardinal Choices

   Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI. Revised and Expanded Edition

   Av Gregg Herken

   Häftad, 2000

   441 kr

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   This book is a history of the complex relations between scientific advisors, primarily physicists, and U.S. presidents in their role as decision makers about nuclear weapons and military strategy. The story, unsurprisingly, is one of considerable tension between the "experts" and the politicians, …

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   Cardinal Choices

   Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI. Revised and Expanded Edition

   Av Gregg Herken

   Inbunden, 2000

   1798 kr

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   This book is a history of the complex relations between scientific advisors, primarily physicists, and U.S. presidents in their role as decision makers about nuclear weapons and military strategy. The story, unsurprisingly, is one of considerable tension between the "experts" and the politicians, …

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   Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

   Av Gregg Herken

   Häftad, 2000

   385 kr

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   Winning Weapon

   The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950

   Av Gregg Herken

   E-bok, 2014

   1028 kr

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   This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon,&quote; an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those …

10. 

    Georgetown Set

    Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

    Av Gregg Herken

    Ljudbok, 2014

    372 kr

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    This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner. In the years after World War II, Georgetown''s leafy streets were home to an …