PositiveFinancial Times\"Kaplan, a US foreign affairs journalist, is a maverick sniping at the flanks of the US politico-military establishment ... The Bomb brings the story up to date. Now that so much information is available, it is not for the most part a new story, but he tells it well. And some things are unchanged ... The \'mutual\' in MAD means that Russian perceptions are as important as US ones. Kaplan devotes too little attention to them ... Just keeping our fingers crossed is not much comfort. But that, plus whatever shrewdness we can muster, may be the best we can do.\
