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The War-Peace Establishment

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The War-Peace Establishment by Arthur Herzog examines the Cold War in light of its participants--scientists who developed the nuclear weapons, military analysts, defense intellectuals, Sovietologists, grand designers of American policies, and dozens of institutions whose principal occupation is analyzing the Cold War. Herzog probes their positions with careful research and insightful interviews and lays out a mosiac-like pattern of developments in the years 1945 to 1965.The Cold War (1945 to 1990) was essentially a rivalry betwen nations known as the Eastern bloc (Russia and its allies) and the Western bloc (USA and its allies). The struggle or "cold" war was a term introduced by Bernard Baruch to denote a time of tension not leading to a "hot" war or fighting. Herzog devotes the book to the analysts, the deterrers, the realists, and the idealists, to name a few, who comprise the establishment who propose varying startegies that would prevent the use of nuclear weapons. An extremely well written book, The War-Peace Establishment provides great insight into the first decades of the Cold War and what we need now is a sequel by Herzog covering the last years of the Cold War.