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A study of Truman as commander in chief consisting of a chronicle of the events in which his decisions were of historic significance, including the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan to end World War II, his decisions on postwar civilian control of atomic energy, his intervention in Korea, his leadership in the Cold War, and his conflict with General Douglas MacArthur.

"A Carnegie Endowment book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. 307-316.

Traces the history of the Cold War concentrating on the involvement of the United States and Russia since 1945 and discusses how the policies and commitments of each country have perpetrated international crises.

"A book that ... addresses the singlemost important issue of modern times, 'Danger and Survival' is the most comprehensive political history of the nuclear bomb ever written, a major work encompassing the events from the discover of fission in 1938 to the superpower summitry of 1988 ... Beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's lonely decision that the United States must be first in the field and ending with hopeful judgement that our chance of avoiding...

"KIRKUS REVIEW : In a first book, The End of Alliance: America and the Future of Europe, the author, a young writer on international affairs, wrote an important popular study of the withering away of the Atlantic strategy of the United States and the disruption of NATO out of old age. In the present study, the author widens his investigation of the Kennedy-Johnson foreign policies and comes out of this intelligent and well-reasoned work with a general...