| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation. By Lynn Eden. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 365 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3578-1.)

This book undertakes two ambitious investigations. The first is a history of an axiom that underpinned United States nuclear war strategy during the Cold War: the critical variable in predicting destruction by nuclear bombing is blast damage, not damage by fire. In Lynn Eden's language, planners embraced the "blast damage frame" and dismissed the "fire damage frame" (p. 53). The second investigation is an argument, woven into the history, that this axiom is mistaken.

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