Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Shock of the "New World"
2. Advising on the Super
3. A Decision Reached
4. Moral and Political Consequences
5. Dissent and Development
6. Tactical Diversions
7. Rewriting Los Alamos
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
The late Ken Young was Professor of Public Policy at King's
College, London. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
and the Academy of Social Sciences and the author of The American
Bomb in Britain.
The late Warner R. Schilling was James T. Shotwell Professor of
International Relations Emeritus at Columbia University, where he
taught for six decades and served as director of Columbia's
Institute of War and Peace Studies. He published books and articles
on civil-military relations, military technology, nuclear strategy,
and the role of science in foreign policy.
Super Bomb is well written, cogently argued, and deeply researched.
The narrative is supported with robust archival materials and
illuminating contemporaneous interviews with myriad policy makers,
scientists, and officers who personally witnessed—and in many cases
influenced—this critical episode.
*Choice*
Sixty years of gestation makes Super Bomb a unique book and,
intellectually speaking, an interesting archaeological find.
*Perspectives on Politics*
[T]he long delay in having the project come to fruition is a
serendipitous boon for historians. hHe interviews contain many
near-contemporaneous observations and insights from the principals
in the superbomb decision.
*journal of cold war studies*
Young, a British academic, took Schilling's material, carried out
some additional research, and crafted a compelling book that was
published posthumously.
*Foreign Affairs*
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