Eclipsed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Early Thinking About Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Barton J. Bernstein is Professor of History and Mellon Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University, where he is co-director of the International Relations Program, and a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control and of the History of Science Program. His most recent publications include “The Oppenheimer Loyalty-Security Case Reconsidered,” in the Stanford Law Review and “Reconsidering Khrushchev's Gambit–Defending the Soviet Union and Cuba,” in Diplomatic History.