TY - BOOK ID - 49552617 TI - Cold War statesmen confront the bomb : nuclear diplomacy since 1945 PY - 1999 SN - 1281970700 9786611970703 0191522333 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nuclear arms control. KW - Cold War. KW - United States KW - Soviet Union KW - Foreign relations KW - World politics KW - Nuclear weapons control KW - Arms control KW - Nuclear weapons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49552617 AB - This text uses biographical techniques to test the question: did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent World War III? It examines the careers of ten Cold War statesmen, and asks whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. ER -