Book Review: Doomed to Cooperate

This massive undertaking focuses its effort on an important and little-told story that those studying the immediate post-Soviet era of nuclear angst in the United States will no doubt find interesting. Weapons scientists of both nations—one concerned that abandoned Soviet nuclear weapons would fall prey to proliferators and terrorists, the other sanguine about its change of nation-status but still confident in its scientists’ ability to protect the nuclear arsenal despite the evolving political climate—came together with a shared sense of accountability to manage the situation. This is how, at least in part, the story arc reads in Doomed to Cooperate, a publication of the Los Alamos Historical Society.