The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War

by Sergey S. Radchenko and Campbell Craig

An original study of the atomic bomb's key role in triggering the post-World War II confrontation between the US and the USSR After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III. In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko show how the atomic bomb...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300110286
• ISBN13: 9780300110289
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"