Robert Smith Thompson

Robert Smith Thompson is currently a professor of international relations at South Carolina University. His books include Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia; A Time for War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor; and The Missiles of October: The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Robert Smith Thompson is currently a professor of international relations at South Carolina University. His books include Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia; A Time for War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor; and The Missiles of October: The Declassified Story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. See less