A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security States, 1945-1954 (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Also useful are Gregg Herken,

The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950 (Knopf, 1980); Margaret Gowing,

Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-1952 (Macmillan, 1974); and John Lewis Gaddis et al. (eds)

Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb (Oxford University Press, 1999).

The Soviet side of this story is told ably in David Holloway,

Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press, 1994); and Vojtech Mastny,

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (Oxford University Press, 1996).

The growth of the global anti-nuclear campaign, together with the forces, personalities, and events that moulded it, is told in Lawrence S. Wittner’s incomparable multi-volume study,

The Struggle against the Bomb (Stanford University Press, 1993).

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