Böcker av Francis J. Gavin

Exploring what we know - and don't know - about how nuclear weapons shape American grand strategy and international relations. Francis Gavin argues that scholarly and popular understanding of many key issues about nuclear weapons is incomplete at best and wrong at worst.

Gavin challenges key elements of the widely accepted narrative about the history of the atomic age and the consequences of the nuclear revolution.

Offers a reassessment of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and dollar-gold convertibility. This book demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, Bretton Woods was a highly politicized system that was prone to crisis and required constant intervention and controls to continue functioning.