The wizards of Armageddon / Fred Kaplan ; [new foreword by Martin J. Sherwin].

Author: Kaplan, Fred M.
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1991]
Copyright Date: ©1991
Physical Description: 1 online resource (452 pages).

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Stanford nuclear age series

Contents

Foreword / Martin J. Sherwin -- Year zero -- Living with the bomb -- Planning for war -- On the beach at RAND -- The superbomb -- The vulnerability study -- The hydra-headed monster -- The Gaither committee -- The report of Maximum Danger -- The missile gap -- The massive-retaliation speech -- The limited-war critique -- Counterforce -- Dr. Strangelove -- The real rivalry -- The Whiz kids -- Two briefings -- The SIOP and the road to Ann Arbor -- The gap that never was -- The crises -- Shelter mania -- Damage unlimited -- Vietnam: Stalemate -- The ABM debate -- The new generation -- Dancing in the dark.

Summary

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.

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History

ISBN

9780804796170 (electronic bk.)
0804796173 (electronic bk.)
0804718849
9780804718844

Note

"The untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the bomb"--Cover
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1983.
"SP 290"--Cover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-430) and index.

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