This definitive survey examines the impact of nuclear weaponry on national security issues. Written by an experienced author and founder of the Peace and Common Security Institute in Berkeley, California, this text describes how current nuclear dilemmas have developed out of past choices and events. The final chapter of this chronologically organized text covers events that took place from 1985-1991, making the material relevant to the post-Cold War era.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1: Introduction CHAPTER 2: The Political-Technological Background CHAPTER 3: America Enters the World Military Arena CHAPTER 4: America Fashions its National Security CHAPTER 5: The First Era of American Military Superiority CHAPTER 6.: Sputnik and the Missile Gap CHAPTER 7: The Second Era of American Military Superiority CHAPTER 8: Security Through Arms Control CHAPTER 9: SALT CHAPTER 10: The Soviet Buildup CHAPTER 11: The American Buildup CHAPTER 12: Strategy and Arms Control in the Early 1980s CHAPTER 13: Star Wars? CHAPTER 14: The Cold War Winds Down: Europe CHAPTER 15: The Cold War Winds Down: Strategic Affairs
This definitive survey examines the impact of nuclear weaponry on national security issues. Written by an experienced author and founder of the Peace and Common Security Institute in Berkeley, California, this text describes how current nuclear dilemmas have developed out of past choices and events. The final chapter of this chronologically organized text covers events that took place from 1985-1991, making the material relevant to the post-Cold War era.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1: Introduction CHAPTER 2: The Political-Technological Background CHAPTER 3: America Enters the World Military Arena CHAPTER 4: America Fashions its National Security CHAPTER 5: The First Era of American Military Superiority CHAPTER 6.: Sputnik and the Missile Gap CHAPTER 7: The Second Era of American Military Superiority CHAPTER 8: Security Through Arms Control CHAPTER 9: SALT CHAPTER 10: The Soviet Buildup CHAPTER 11: The American Buildup CHAPTER 12: Strategy and Arms Control in the Early 1980s CHAPTER 13: Star Wars? CHAPTER 14: The Cold War Winds Down: Europe CHAPTER 15: The Cold War Winds Down: Strategic Affairs
This definitive survey examines the impact of nuclear weaponry on national security issues. Written by an experienced author and founder of the Peace and Common Security Institute in Berkeley, California, this text describes how current nuclear dilemmas have developed out of past choices and events. The final chapter of this chronologically organized text covers events that took place from 1985-1991, making the material relevant to the post-Cold War era.