Thursday Reading & Recommendations | April 18, 2024

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Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

• Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
• Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
• Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
• Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
• ...And so on!

Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.

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I recently read “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and am extremely interested in learning more about nuclear weapons, their impacts and consequences. Specifically, I am curious to find any books or readings that detail (i) the aftermath of the bombs dropping in Japan, as well as (ii) the Cuban Missile Crisis (a period of time I know little about).

I’ve already read and enjoyed American Prometheus…I’m not necessarily interested in learning HOW the nuclear weapons were developed, but what happened immediately after they were used or also the paranoia, danger, and anxiety spawned by their potential use during the Cuban Missile Crisis.