Notes
1 See Campbell Craig, Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 2nd edn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); Christopher Preble, John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007); and Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009).
2 This was taken for granted in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima. See Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light (New York: Pantheon, 1985), chapters 1–2.