Michael Mandelbaum

The Nuclear Question

The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946 1976

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1979, this book is a history of American nuclear weapons policy that tells how the United States learned to live with the bomb.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521296144
• ISBN-10: 0521296145
• Artikelnr.: 26009249

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The nuclear question
2. The failure of liberal diplomacy
3. The origins of strategy
4. The foundations of stable deterrence
5. the rise and fall of nuclear war
6. The great fight: the Cuban missile crisis
7. The first step: the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963
8. Fencers on a tightrope.