James Cameron

The Double Game

The Demise of America's First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on declassified records of presidential conversations, this book shows how presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon engaged in a double game, hiding their true beliefs behind a fa¿e of strategic language while secretly grappling with the complex realities of the nuclear age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190459925
• ISBN-10: 0190459921
• Artikelnr.: 48428919

Autorenporträt

James Cameron is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Ch. 1. Rational Superiority, Crises, and Arms Control, 1961-1963
* Ch. 2. The Great Society and the Politics of Assured Destruction,
1963-1966
* Ch. 3. First Steps toward SALT, 1966-1969
* Ch. 4. Collapse of the Consensus and the Struggle for Coherence,
1969-1970
* Ch. 5. Reconciliation with Necessity and the Race to the Summit,
1970-1972
* Conclusion: The Double Game
* Notes
* Sources
* Index