The Bomb

“And then getting them together in groups to, I mean, it's interesting stuff. And he's just come out with a new book called The Bomb, Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. So it takes like what we did or what he did in the earlier books or what we did in The Destroyer of Worlds and brings it up to modern times…”

Why: It brings the nuclear situation up to modern times, making it more chilling, scary, real, and current.

Dan Carlin, Host on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryStrangelove Whisperings

“quite the contrary to it being internalized I think all of these ideas have been at least among the broad educated public interested in international relations let's say forgotten and one reason I wrote this new book The Bomb is precisely because of that…”

Why: It serves as a necessary look at the history of nuclear issues after decades of public complacency and forgetting.

Fred Kaplan, Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryStrangelove Whisperings