Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon
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Welcome to the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs!
In this first episode, world-renowned economist and Columbia
University Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Pulitzer
Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin about his book Gambling
with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban
Missile Crisis, which explores the origins, scope, and
consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the
post-World War II world.
Professors Sachs and Sherwin discuss the choices of the Truman
and Eisenhower administrations over the course of the nuclear
arms race, Khrushchev’s and Kennedy’s positions during the Bay of
Pigs debacle, and the often-overlooked role of US Ambassador to
the United Nations Adlai Stevenson—and luck—in preventing a
nuclear world war.
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Footnotes:
Biography of John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy, Address before the UN General
Assembly, 25 Sep. 1961
Biography of Nikita Khrushchev
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Biography of Frank Oppenheimer
The Day After Trinity (1981)
Biography of Harry S. Truman
Biography of James F. Byrnes
Biography of Joseph Stalin
Biography of Dwight Eisenhower
President Dwight Eisenhower, Address before the UN General
Assembly, 8 Dec. 1953
Missives between Khrushchev and Kennedy
Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council
on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Biography of Adlai Stevenson II
Biography of U Thant
Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
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