Gregg Herken

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Gregg Herken is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, University of California, Merced

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#6528

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#1656

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Gregg Herken's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of modern American diplomatic History at the University of California, Merced, whose scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War.

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Gregg Herken's Published Works

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The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950 (1982) (107)
Counsels of war (1985) (103)
Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (1993) (40)
The Winning Weapon (1980) (33)
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (2002) (25)
Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later. (1997) (22)
Citizens against the MX: Public Languages in the Nuclear Age (1993) (16)
A Most Deadly Illusion: The Atomic Secret and American Nuclear Weapons Policy, 1945-1950 (1980) (13)
The nuclear option (1992) (13)
The earthly origins of Star Wars (1987) (9)
Doctors of death. (1994) (6)
The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (2014) (6)
The flying crowbar (1990) (6)
The not‐quite‐absolute weapon: Deterrence and the legacy of Bernard Brodie (1986) (3)
The gadfly (2019) (3)
American diplomacy and the atomic bomb, 1945-1947 (1974) (2)
Comment on book review of “Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller,” by Gregg Herken [Am. J. Phys. 71 (4), 411–415 (2003)] (2003) (2)
Impacts of the Early Cold War on the Formulation of U.S. Science Policy: Selected Memoranda of William T. Golden, October 1950-April 1951. William T. Golden , William A. Blanpied (1996) (2)
Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By Timothy P. Ireland. (Westport: Greenwood, 1981. x + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50.) (1981) (1)
Thomas C. Reed, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. 368 pp. $25.95 (2007) (1)
At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War (review) (2007) (1)
Target Enormoz: Soviet Nuclear Espionage on the West Coast of the United States, 19421950 (2009) (1)
Planning for Nuclear War: A Reprise@@@Counsels of War. (1986) (1)
A Mixed Legacy (2011) (1)
Commentary: In the Service of the State: Science and the Cold War (2000) (1)
Ronald E. Powaski. Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981–1999. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 294. $30.00 (2001) (1)
4. Moscow: The New Atomic Diplomacy (1988) (0)
J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life (review) (2007) (0)
2. Washington: A Direct Approach to Russia (1988) (0)
Politics, Public Policy, Administrtion Cardinal Choices, Gregg Herken. 1992. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 317 pages. ISBN: 0-19-507210-3. $24.95 (1994) (0)
5. Pax Atomica: The Myth of the Atomic Secret (1988) (0)
Superbomb: Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb. by Ken Young and Warner R. Schilling, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 221 pp. $130.00. (2020) (0)
Lynn Etheridge Davis. The Cold War Begins: Soviet-American Conflict over Eastern Europe. (Written under the auspices of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1974. Pp. x, 427. $15.00 (1976) (0)
Common Knowledge, W. Russell Neuman, Martin R. Just and Ann N. Crigler. 1992. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 190 pages. ISBN: 0-226-57439-3 (hc); 0-226-57440-7 (pb). $29.95 (hc); $10.95 (pb (1994) (0)
Teller: still controversial (2004) (0)
The Finger on the Button (2007) (0)
12. The Year of Opportunity: 1948 (1988) (0)
Jeremy Bernstein, Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (2007) (0)
Days of Challenge, Years of Change: A Technical History of the Pacific Missile Test Center Staff of the Pacific Missile Test Center (1991) (0)
15. The Race Begins (1988) (0)
True crime : Pan Am Flight 7 (2017) (0)
9. The Winning Weapon in the United Nations (1988) (0)
Superbomb: Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb by Ken Young and Warner R. Schilling (review) (2020) (0)
Race for the Superbomb Thomas Ott Sharon Grimberg (2000) (0)
American Scientists and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy (1985) (0)
1. Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Prelude (1988) (0)
One Path Through Los Alamos (2004) (0)
Presidential Science Advising from Roosevelt to Reagan (2004) (0)
6. "Atom Spies" and Politics (1988) (0)
Mankind's strange love of superweapons (2007) (0)
The Smithsonian’s Decision to Exhibit the ‘Enola Gay’ (2022) (0)
Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. By Andrew J. Rotter. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19- 280437-2.) (2009) (0)
Spying on the Bear: Anglo–American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb by Goodman, M.S (2009) (0)
THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (2005) (0)
Review: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by James L. Nolan, Jr. (2022) (0)
10. Strategy and the Bomb (1988) (0)
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. By John Lewis Gaddis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. XV + 432 pp. Table, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) (1982) (0)
3. London: The Dog that Didn't Bark (1988) (0)
Lawrence S. Wittner. Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1974. Pp. x, 403. Cloth $12.50, paper $6.95. (1976) (0)
11. The War Over the Horizon (1988) (0)
Accession 96-060 Gregg Herken Papers, circa 1980-1990 (1980) (0)
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War (review) (2001) (0)
14. The Monopoly Ends (1988) (0)
An Explosion in the Desert (2005) (0)
Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (review) (2005) (0)
American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War (review) (2003) (0)
Robert James Maddox. Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1995. Pp. 215. $19.95 (1997) (0)
Preface to the Princeton Edition (1988) (0)
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (review) (2007) (0)
A Martian's Chronicles (2001) (0)
Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (review) (2008) (0)
8. Scientists, Soldiers, and Diplomats (1988) (0)
13. Beau Geste for Berlin (1988) (0)
Historical Perspectives on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1987) (0)
7. The Atomic Curtain Descends (1988) (0)

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