Dan’s research and book list:
Ike’s Bluff
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
War: The Lethal Custom
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Global Catastrophic Risks
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay
Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, Vol. 2: The Atomic Energy Years 1945-1950
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Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
The effects of nuclear war.
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The Kremlin’s Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000
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The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare–The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat
Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s
The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order
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Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev
To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans
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War, Peace and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century
How to Make War (Fourth Edition): A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century
The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis
KHRUSHCHEV REMEMBERS
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Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment)
The Lessons of History
Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present
Doctor at Nagasaki: My First Assignment was Mercy Killing
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy
A history of strategic bombing
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Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
Grand Strategies in War and Peace
Would the Insects Inherit the Earth? and Other Subjects of Concern to Those Who Worry About Nuclear War
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Roosevelt to Reagan: A Reporter’s Encounters With Nine Presidents
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
War: Ends and Means, Second Edition
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
On Thermonuclear War
World War III: Strategies Tactics and Weapons
American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil (Modern War Studies)
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Strategic Nuclear War: What the Superpowers Target and Why (Contributions in Military Studies)
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NBC WHITE PAPER: DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB (1/5/1965)
Resources not sold on Amazon:
Truman Library – Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S. Truman
ExComm recordings and transcripts
