John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddisis the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, and has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan: An American Life, his biography of Kennan, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
CountryUnited States of America
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.