The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb

"Haunting and fascinating…an important public service." -The New York Times Book Review

“[A] fascinating portrait of an unlikely coalition of disarmament crusaders” - The Wall Street Journal

“This brilliant, penetrating study of nuclear threats is in the tradition of David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan. Taubman has, perhaps as importantly, unlocked the history of the war we never had. Readers will tremble at the dangers the world has faced and still faces today.” -Bob Woodward

"The Partnership is a richly detailed account of one of the most important issues of our time - the management and future of the world's nuclear arsenal. Taubman brings this compelling subject to life with original reporting and vivid descriptions of the major players. It's a book that should be on the bedside of every presidential candidate, national affairs journalist and engaged citizen." - Tom Brokaw

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Philip Taubman worked for The New York Times for thirty years as a reporter and editor, including stints as chief of both the Washington and Moscow bureaus, and deputy editorial page editor. He has also worked at Esquire and Time magazines. He was twice awarded the George Polk Award—for National Reporting in 1981 (with Seymour Hersh and Jeff Gerth) and for Foreign Affairs Reporting in 1983. Since retiring from the Times in 2008, he has been a consulting professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book, Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage, was published in 2003.

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Read Philip Taubman's Latest Articles

• Bipartisanship Shouldn’t Just Be Nuclear In this era of rancor in Washington, it’s hard to imagine a time when two of the most partisan men in the nation could set aside their differences to swap political stories and seek common ground on critical issues. (Zocalo Public Square , 02/07/12)

• No Need for All These Nukes OVER the last three years, as I delved into the world of American nuclear weapons, I felt increasingly as though I had stepped into a time warp. (NYTimes, 1/7/12)

• Examining Iranian And North Korean Nuclear Threats The nuclear weapons news of late has been alarming. David Sanger reported in "The New York Times" on January 9 that Iran's top nuclear official had announced his country was near initiating uranium enrichment at a new plant. (Huffington Post, 1/10/12)

• Obama's Big Missile Test Setting an arms reduction agenda with President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia was easy; the real challenge now will be getting the American government to support it. (NYTimes, 7/8/09)

• The Trouble With Zero No nukes at all. A goal deemed quixotic in the era of Stalin gets new life in the age of the Taliban. (NYTimes, 5/9/09)

• Learning Not To Love the Bomb If the White House wants to resuscitate talks with Russia about nuclear-arms reduction, it will need to break free from cold war thinking. (NYTimes, 2/18/09)