3 Learning to Fear the Bomb: Kennedy’s Crises and the Origins of Détente

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Mentor: Stimson’s Influence on Bundy 11
6. 2 A Foreign Office in Microcosm: Creating the National Security Adviser and Re-creating the NSC Staff 36
7. 3 Learning to Fear the Bomb: Kennedy’s Crises and the Origins of Détente 54
8. 4 The Hawk: Rostow and the First Attempt at Americanization 75
9. 5 The Soft Hawk: Forrestal and Nonmilitary Escalation 101
10. 6 Bundy the Adviser: The Drift to War 129
11. 7 Bundy the Advocate: The Rush to War 155
12. 8 Bundy Ambivalent: Rolling Thunder, Student Unrest, and the Decision to Commit Troops 191
13. 9 Bundy Resilient: The Bombing Pause and the Continuing Search for a Successful Policy 208
14. Epilogue: Legacies 236
15. Notes 251
16. Bibliography of Primary Sources 303
17. Index 309