Confronting the Bomb
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In Confronting the Bomb, historian Lawrence S.... Wittner, opens with a central question: "How should we account for the fact that, since 1945, the world had avoided nuclear war'" (Wittner) Furthermore, why have nuclear nations adopted nuclear arms control and disarmament measures' He cast off the conventional explanation that holds that nuclear weapons have "deterred" nations from waging war....