Books, Arts & Manners: Learning to Love the Bomb

Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years, by Mc-George Bundy (Random House, 735 pp., $24.95)

McGeorge Bundy set a formidable task for himself: not only to review the history of the Bomb since the discovery of fission fifty years ago, but also to subject every decision, confrontation, and argument regarding it to a thorough critical analysis. He very nearly exhausts the subject, and he decidedly exhausted this reader, for the minutiae involved are staggering.