“Bibliography” in “America’s Cold Warrior”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archives
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO
Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA
Committee on the Present Danger records, 1976–1992
George W. Bush Presidential Library, Dallas, TX
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA
Library of Congress Manuscript Collections, Washington, DC
Paul H. Nitze Papers, 1922–1998 (Nitze Papers)
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA
Digital Collections
Foreign Relations of the United States series (FRUS)
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Open Vault from WGBH: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
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The Reagan Files
Selected Primary Sources
- Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. Reissue ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
- Bohlen, Charles. Witness to History, 1929–1969. New York: Norton, 1973.
- Brinkley, David. The Reagan Diaries. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
- Carter, Jimmy. White House Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
- Gates, Robert. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
- Giltman, Maynard. The Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the INF Treaty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- McFarlane, Robert. Special Trust. New York: Cadell & Davies, 1994.
- Nitze, Paul. “Assuring Strategic Stability in an Era of Détente.” Foreign Affairs 54, no. 2 (January 1976): 207–32.
- Nitze, Paul. “Atoms, Strategy and Policy,” Foreign Affairs, January 1956.
- Nitze, Paul H. Tension between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics. New York: Scribner, 1993.
- Nitze, Paul, with Ann M. Smith and Steven L. Rearden. From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision—A Memoir. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.
- Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: Diplomacy, Power, and the Victory of the American Deal. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
- Skinner, Kiron, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, eds. Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America. New York: Touchstone, 2001.
- Thompson, Kenneth, and Steven Rearden, eds. Paul H. Nitze on Foreign Policy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989.
- Thompson, Kenneth, and Steven Rearden, eds. Paul H. Nitze on National Security and Arms Control. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
- Thompson, Kenneth, and Steven Rearden, eds. Paul H. Nitze on the Future. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.
- United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS). Summary Report (European War). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945.
- United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS). Summary Report (Pacific War). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1946.
Selected Secondary Sources
- Ambrose, Matthew. The Control Agenda: A History of Strategic Arms Limitations Talks. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Auten, Brian. Carter’s Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008.
- Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Betts, Richard K. Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
- Bowie, Robert R., and Richard H. Immerman. Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Brown, Archie. The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Bundy, McGeorge. “To Cap the Volcano.” Foreign Affairs, October 1969.
- Cahn, Anne Hessing. Killing Détente: The Right Attacks the CIA. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
- Callahan, David. Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
- Cameron, James. The Double Game: The Demise of America’s First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Cardwell, Curt. NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Colbourn, Susan. Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Costigliola, Frank. Kennan: A Life between Worlds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Craig, Campbell, and Fredrik Logevall. America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Craig, Campbell, and Sergey Radchenko. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
- Crowder, Richard. Aftermath: The Makers of the Postwar World. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Daigle, Craig. The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969–1973. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
- Desch, Michael. Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Dobbs, Michael. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. Repr. ed. New York: Vintage, 2009.
- Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.
- Drell, Sidney D., and George Pratt Shultz. Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary: Conference Report. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2007.
- Drew, S. Nelson, ed. NSC-68: Forging the Strategy of Containment. Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1994.
- Dulles, John Foster. “Policy for Security and Peace.” Foreign Affairs, April 1954
- Fischer, Beth. The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethinking President Reagan’s Cold War Legacy. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2020.
- Forrestal, James, and Walter Millis. The Forrestal Diaries. Auckland, New Zealand: Pickle Partners, 2015.
- Freedman, Lawrence. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Freeman, Stephanie L. Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
- Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Garthoff, Raymond. Détente and Confrontation: American–Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1994.
- Gavin, Francis J. Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Gavin, Francis J. Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020.
- Gentile, Gian P. How Effective Is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
- Glaser, Charles L. Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Gordin, Michael D. Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
- Graham, Thomas, Jr. Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
- Graham, Thomas, Jr., and Damien J. LaVera. Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
- Green, Brendan Rittenhouse. The Revolution That Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Gutner, Tammi. The Story of SAIS. Washington, DC: School of Advanced International Studies, 1987.
- Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 2002.
- Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Heefner, Gretchen. The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Herken, Gregg. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York: Henry Holt, 2013.
- Herken, Gregg. Counsels of War. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2015.
- Herken, Gregg. The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2015.
- Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945–1950. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.
- Hill, Charles. Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
- Hitchcock, William I. The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
- Hoffman, David. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy. New York: Random House, 2009.
- Hogan, Michael J. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
- Hoopes, Townsend, and Douglas Brinkley. Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
- Hopkins, Michael F. Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
- Hunt, Jonathan R. The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022.
- Inboden, William. The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. New York: Penguin, 2022.
- Isaacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- Jervis, Robert. The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Jervis, Robert. “Why Nuclear Superiority Doesn’t Matter.” Political Science Quarterly 94, no. 4 (Winter 1979–1980): 617–33. https://
www ..jstor .org /stable /2149629 - Kaplan, Edward. To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
- Kaplan, Fred. The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.
- Keefer, Edward Coltrin. Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge 1977–1981. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2017.
- Kissinger, Henry. Nuclear Weapons & Foreign Policy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
- Koch, Susan J. The Presidential Nuclear Initiatives of 1991–1992. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 1, 2012.
- Krepinevich, Andrew, and Barry Watts. The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
- Krepon, Michael. Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
- Kroenig, Matthew. The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Kuklick, Bruce. Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
- Lanoszka, Alexander. Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Leffler, Melvyn P. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New York: Macmillan, 2007.
- Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992.
- Leffler, Melvyn P. Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920–2015. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
- Leffler, Melvyn P., and Odd Arne Westad. The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Lerner, Mitchell B. The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
- Lieber, Keir A., and Daryl G. Press. The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Logevall, Frederik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
- Martin, Garret Joseph. General de Gaulle’s Cold War: Challenging American Hegemony, 1963–1968. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Matlock, Jack. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. New York: Random House, 2004.
- Maurer, John D. Competitive Arms Control: Nixon, Kissinger, and SALT, 1969–1972. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022.
- May, Ernest R. American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1993.
- McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- McMahon, Robert J. Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
- Mieczkowski, Yanek. Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
- Miles, Simon. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Miller, Nicholas L. Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Milne, David. Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy. New York: Macmillan, 2015.
- Moss, Richard A. Nixon’s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
- Nau, Henry. Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Newhouse, John. Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973.
- Newman, Robert P. “Ending the War with Japan: Paul Nitze’s ‘Early Surrender’ Counterfactual.” Pacific Historical Review 64, no. 2 (1995): 167–94.
- Nitze, Paul. “The Grand Strategy of NSC-68.” In NSC-68: Forging the Strategy of Containment, edited by S. Nelson Drew, 7–16. Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1994. https://
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