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Michael D Gordin

Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
<p>Lawrence D. Freedman</p>

Pointing to the way the Soviet nuclear program was structured, Gordin questions whether Soviet spies and captured German scientists made as much of a difference to the timing of the Soviet atomic bomb project as is often assumed.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2007
Five Day in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War; The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb
Lawrence D. Freedman
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In the Magazine

March/April 2010, 2, 89
Essay
After Iran Gets the Bomb
James M. Lindsay and Ray Takeyh

Despite international pressure, Iran appears to be continuing its march toward getting a nuclear bomb. But Washington can contain and mitigate the consequences of Tehran's nuclear defiance, keeping an abhorrent outcome from becoming a catastrophic one.
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