March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present by Ronald E. PowaskiMarch to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present by Ronald E. Powaski

March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present

byRonald E. Powaski

Paperback | October 1, 1988

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Ronald E. Powaski offers the first complete, accessible history of the events, forces, and factors that have brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. He traces the evolution of the nuclear arms race from FDR's decision to develop an atomic bomb to Reagan's decision tocontinue its expansion in the 1980's. Focusing on the forces that have propelled the arms race and the reasons behind the repeated failures to check the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Powaski discusses such topics as the Manhattan Project, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, the debate over whether to share atomicinformation, the effect of nuclear weapons on U.S. military and foreign policy, and the role of these weapons in arms control negotiations in the last five presidential administrations.
Ronald E. Powaski teaches history at John Carroll University and Euclid Senior High School in Euclid, Ohio.
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Title:March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the PresentFormat:PaperbackDimensions:318 pages, 7.99 × 5.39 × 0.67 inPublished:October 1, 1988Publisher:Oxford University Press

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ISBN - 10:0195044118

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Ronald E. Powaski offers the first complete, accessible history of the events, forces, and factors that have brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. Topics range from the Manhattan Project, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, and the debate over whether to share atomic information, to the effect of nuclear weapons on U.S. military and foreign policy, and the role of these weapons in arms control negotiations during the last five presidential administrations.

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"A relentlessly precise, step-by-step account of the doomsday race, including Reagan's escalation."--Philip Berrigan