The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context

Heuser, B. (1999) The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context. Turning Points in History. Longman's, London, pp236. ISBN 0582292905

Abstract/Summary

This book examines to what extent the invention and first use of nuclear weapons was a turning point in the history of warfare and strategy(to what extent was it a mere continuation or perfection of air power strategy? Were the casualty numbers really unprecedented?), the ethics of war (was this form of war against civilians unprecedented?), and it asks whether it was an expression of total war or did it create total war