2019
First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman’s The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, and covering all nuclear powers.
this bomb will either prevent war or destroy the human race’.
In 1950 (the year that he died), Earle’s seminar was described as a highlight of the Institute for Advanced Studies, part of ‘one of the most dramatic assemblages of intellectual power to be found anywhere in the world today’.
A stark choice was identified: either the creation of a strong international organization with powers to enforce universal pledges of atomic absti- nence or else the bad habits of international politics would be perpetuated until they inevitably led to an orgy of mutual destruction. The choice was ‘One World or None’.
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