To Win a Nuclear War records as fully as we are likely to find what has gone on in the minds of American leaders and nuclear strategists on this awesome subject during these fateful forty years. It is an appalling story... This book compels us to re-think and re-write the history of the Cold War and the arms race."--From the foreword by Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States. To Win a Nuclear War provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present. Based on recently declassified Top Secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this book meticulously traces how U.S. policy makers in over a dozen episodes have threatened to initiate a nuclear attack. The book also documents the surprising reasons why the war plans were never carried out and discloses the deeper, hidden meaning of the Star Wars program.
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This book discusses the nuclear dilemma from various countries' points of view: from Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and others. The final chapter proposes a new solution for the nonproliferation treaty review.
“This is just like Communism”: Transcript, “Adm. Burke's Conversation with Secretary Franke, 12 August 1960,” Arleigh Burke Papers, SIOP/ NSTL Briefing Folder, Navy Yard, Washington, DC*; Kaplan, op. cit. 265-67. “You're more generous”: ...
What must the mind of a defense policymaker be like?
A Sino-U.S. war could take various, and unintended, paths.
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Bog om NATO's muligheder for at vinde en krig imod sovjetiske hær og WAPA. Der drages sammenligninger med tyske hærs kamp mod samme modstander i 2. Verdenskrig
The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when one of these states makes the conscious decision that using a nuclear weapon against the United States, its allies, or forward deployed forces in the ...
The book presented here (Book 4) is a part of a series of selected chapters from my novel, Winning Without Victory.
In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950–1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated ...