Eisenhower, science advice, and the nuclear test-ban debate, 1945-1963
"Based on extensive research in government archives and private papers, this book analyzes the secret debate within the Eisenhower administration over the pursuit of a nuclear test-ban agreement. In contrast to much recent scholarship, this study concludes that Eisenhower strongly desired to reach an accord to cease nuclear weapons testing with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. For Eisenhower, a test ban would ease Cold War tensions, slow the nuclear arms race, and build confidence toward disarmament; however, he faced continual resistance from his early scientific advisers, most notably Lewis L. Strauss and Edward Teller."
Print Book, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007