Barton Bernstein

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Barton Bernstein is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University

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Barton Bernstein's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Barton J. Bernstein is Professor emeritus of History at Stanford University and co-chair of the International Relations Program and the International Policy Studies Program. He has published about early Cold War history, as well as about the history of nuclear weapons development and strategy during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Essence of Decision (1971) (966)
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History (1969) (83)
Cold War Orthodoxy Restated@@@The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947. (1973) (60)
America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 (1968) (54)
Roosevelt, Truman, and the Atomic Bomb, 1941-1945: A Reinterpretation (1975) (47)
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Trading the Jupiters in Turkey? (1980) (47)
Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little-Known Near Disasters, and Modern Memory (1995) (38)
A postwar myth: 500,000 U.S. lives saved (1986) (36)
The birth of the U.S. biological-warfare program. (1987) (35)
The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered (1995) (31)
Understanding Decisionmaking, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Review Essay (2000) (27)
The Voice Of The Dolphins, And Other Stories (1961) (26)
Eclipsed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Early Thinking About Tactical Nuclear Weapons (1991) (26)
In Any Light: Scientists and the Decision to Build the Superbomb, 1952-1954 (1989) (23)
Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration (1970) (23)
Towards a New Past (1968) (23)
The Quest for Security: American Foreign Policy and International Control of Atomic Energy, 1942-1946 (1974) (22)
The Truman Administration: A Documentary History (1966) (22)
The Uneasy Alliance: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Atomic Bomb, 1940-1945 (1976) (21)
Seizing the Contested Terrain of Early Nuclear History: Stimson, Conant, and Their Allies Explain the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1993) (20)
The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues (1976) (20)
Economic advice and presidential leadership : the Council of Economic Advisers (1966) (20)
Judgment at the Smithsonian (1995) (19)
America's biological warfare program in the Second World War (1988) (19)
Four Physicists and the Bomb: The Early Years, 1945-1950 (1988) (19)
Marshall, Truman, and the Decision to Drop the Bomb (1991) (18)
The Road to Watergate and Beyond: The Growth and Abuse of Executive Authority Since 1940 (1976) (17)
Truman and the A-Bomb: Targeting Noncombatants, Using the Bomb, and His Defending the "Decision" (1998) (17)
The Perils and Politics of Surrender: Ending the War with Japan and Avoiding the Third Atomic Bomb (1977) (17)
“The Atomic Bomb and American Foreign Policy, 1941–1945: An Historiographical Controversy” (1974) (16)
Reconsidering the "Atomic General": Leslie R. Groves (2003) (15)
Plessy V. Ferguson: Conservative Sociological Jurisprudence (1963) (15)
The Truman Administration and the Steel Strike of 1946 (1966) (14)
Reconsidering the Missile Crisis: Dealing with the Problems of the American Jupiters in Turkey (1992) (13)
Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. (1968) (13)
Ike and Hiroshima: Did he oppose it? (1987) (13)
Compelling Japan's surrender without the a‐bomb, soviet entry, or invasion: Reconsidering the us bombing survey's early‐surrender conclusions (1995) (12)
Better a Shield Than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology (1990) (12)
Reconsidering Truman's claim of ‘half a million American lives’ saved by the atomic bomb: The construction and deconstruction of a myth (1999) (12)
The Oppenheimer Loyalty-Security Case Reconsidered (1990) (11)
Twentieth-century America : recent interpretations (1971) (11)
An Analysis of "Two Cultures": Writing about the Making and the Using of the Atomic Bombs (1990) (10)
The misguided quest for the artificial heart. (1984) (10)
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1982) (10)
New Light on the Korean War (1981) (9)
Churchill's secret biological weapons (1987) (9)
The week we almost went to war (1976) (9)
Crossing the Rubicon: A Missed Opportunity to Stop the H-Bomb? (1989) (9)
The Truman presidency: The Truman administration and the Korean War (1989) (8)
The scorpion and the tarantula : the struggle to control atomic weapons, 1945-1949 (1971) (8)
Southern Politics and Attempts to Reopen the African Slave Trade (1966) (8)
Case Law in Plessy v. Ferguson (1962) (8)
Writing, Righting, or Wronging the Historical Record: President Truman's Letter on His Atomic-Bomb Decision (1992) (7)
The Removal of War Production Board Controls on Business, 1944–1946 (1965) (7)
The Truman administration and its reconversion wage policy (1965) (7)
Radiological warfare: the path not taken (1985) (6)
Reconsidering “Invasion Most Costly”: Popular‐History Scholarship, Publishing Standards, and the Claim of High U.S. Casualty Estimates to Help Legitimize the Atomic Bombings (1999) (6)
The Debate on Industrial Reconversion (1967) (5)
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man (2003) (4)
The Alarming Japanese Buildup on Southern Kyushu, Growing U.S. Fears, and Counterfactual Analysis: Would the Planned November 1945 Invasion of Southern Kyushu Have Occurred? (1999) (4)
Shatterer of Worlds--Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (1975) (3)
Truman and the H-bomb (1984) (3)
Francis Greenwood Peabody: Conservative Social Reformer (1963) (3)
Commentary: Reconsidering Khrushchev's Gambit—Defending the Soviet Union and Cuba (1990) (3)
Power in postwar America : interdisciplinary perspectives on a historical problem (1971) (3)
Nuclear deception: the U.S. record (1986) (3)
The pursuit of the artificial heart. (1986) (3)
The artificial heart program. (1981) (3)
Economic Advice and Presidential Leadership: The Council of Economic Advisers. By Edward S. Flash, Jr. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. x + 382 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $8.95.) (1967) (2)
Doing harm: the DES tragedy and modern American medicine. (1987) (2)
Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race (2011) (2)
Commentary: The Challenge of “National Security”—A Skeptical View (1993) (2)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki reconsidered : the atomic bombings of Japan and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1945 (1975) (2)
The enigma of J Robert Oppenheimer (2004) (1)
Considering John Lewis Gaddis’s Kennan Biography: Questionable Interpretations and Unpursued Evidence and Issues. John L. Gaddis, 2011, George F. Kennan. An American Life, New York, Penguin Press, xi, 800 p. (2014) (1)
Syngman rhee: The pawn as rook the struggle to end the Korean war (1978) (1)
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson. Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1968-69 (1971) (1)
The book that leaves nothing to chance How The strategy of conflict and his legacy normalized the practice of nuclear threats (2016) (1)
Examining The Fourteenth Day: studying the neglected aftermath period of the October Cuban missile crisis, and underscoring missed analytical opportunities (2015) (1)
On mass inoculation, who should be heard? (1981) (1)
Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York. (1964) (1)
Anna Mary Wells, Dear Preceptors: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (1964) (1)
America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1966. By Walter LaFeber. [America in Crisis.] (New York: John Wiley and Sons. 1967. Pp. xi, 295. Cloth $6.50, paper $2.95.) (1968) (1)
The Pacific War Revisited Gunter Bischof Robert L. Dupont (1998) (0)
James McPherson, The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. (1965) (0)
Fiftieth Anniversary of The Journal of Negro History (1966) (0)
Course Outline for Arms Control Course (Winter Quarter 1971) (1969) (0)
The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered [Excerpt] (2016) (0)
The New Deal (1964) (0)
William L. O'Neill. Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. 1971. Pp. ix, 442, xxvi. $12.50 (1972) (0)
Course Outline for Arms Control Course (Spring Quarter 1971) (1969) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
‘Doc’ Draper Praised; A‐Bomb Reappraised (1990) (0)
Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898–1900. By Robert L. Beisner. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1968. Pp. xvi, 310. $6.95.) (1969) (0)
The artificial heart program. (1981) (0)
Interpreting the Elusive Robert Serber: What Serber Says and What Serber Does Not Explicitly Say (2001) (0)
A‐Bomb History in the Making (1989) (0)
The swine flu immunization program. (1985) (0)
Letter from Barton J. Bernstein to Joshua Lederberg (1979) (0)
Social Reform, Conscience, and Science (1964) (0)
The pursuit of the artificial heart. (1986) (0)
Reviews of Dark Sun Trigger Exchanges (1996) (0)
Sacrifices and Decisions: Lewis L. Strauss (1986) (0)
Carleton Putnam, Foreward by T. R. Waring, Introduction by R. Ruggles Gates, Henry E. Garrett, R. Gayre of Gayre, and Wesley C. George, Race and Reason: A Yankee View. (1963) (0)
Working in the Public Interest Law Conference (2008) (0)
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism.@@@Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History. (1971) (0)
Understanding the American experience: recent interpretations, (1973) (0)
On mass inoculation, who should be heard? (1981) (0)
Leo Szilard: Giving Peace a Chance in the Nuclear Age (1987) (0)
The Wound Within: America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974@@@The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War (1976) (0)
Scientists and Nuclear Weapons in World War II: The Background, the Experience, and the Sometimes Contested Meanings and Analyses (2012) (0)
The misguided quest for the artificial heart. (1984) (0)
The artificial heart. A study in myopia. (1984) (0)
Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration@@@Architects of Illusion: Men and Ideas in American Foreign Policy, 1941-1949 (1971) (0)
American memory and the A‐Bomb (1996) (0)
The man who knew power (2004) (0)
The Swine Flu Vaccination Campaign of 1976: Politics, Science, and the Public (1983) (0)
Hiroshima y Nagasaki (1995) (0)
The death of a nuclear legend (2003) (0)
The Birth of the U.S. Biological-Warfare Program (2020) (0)
Dwight Lowell Dumond, Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America. (1962) (0)
The DES Tragedy (1988) (0)
Stanley P. Hirshson, Introduction by David Donald, Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans & The Southern Negro, 1877-1893. (1963) (0)
Of Martians, aerodynamics, and fathering the bomb (2007) (0)
Concerns of a Conservative Democrat. By Charles Sawyer. Ed. by Eugene P. Trani. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968. xv + 399 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $10.00.) (1970) (0)
The National Farmers Union: Ideology of a Pressure Group by John A. Crampton (1965) (0)
Analyzing and Assessing Gaddis's Kennan Biography: Questionable Interpretations and Unpursued Evidence and Issues (2013) (0)
REVIEW ESSAY: “Henry A. Wallace and the Agony of American Liberalism: A Political Pariah in the Cold War.”* (1974) (0)
Impairing Public Understanding: Flawed History, Uncritical Reviews and Interviews, and Misrepresenting A-Bomb-Related History (2022) (0)
Counterpoint: Is Technology Overemphasized? (1984) (0)

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