Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom Luise Eichenbaum Joyce Mitamura

Joyce Mitamura

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Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom Luise Eichenbaum Joyce MitamuraDuring his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty five minutes seventy million people will be dead. Nixon was accurately describing not only his own power but also the power of every American president in the nuclear age. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon each contemplated using nuclear weapons Eisenhower twice, Kennedy three times, Johnson once, Nixon four