Emergency War Plan: The American Doomsday Machine, 1945-1960 - Couverture rigide

Maloney, Sean M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1640122346 ISBN 13 : 9781640122345

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2021

Synopsis

Winner of the 2023 AFHF Air Power History Book Prize

Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of nuclear strategy during this time have, for the most part, categorized American efforts as "massive retaliation" and "mutually assured destruction," blunt instruments to be casually dismissed in favor of more flexible approaches or summed up in inflammatory and judgmental terms like "MAD." These descriptors evolved into slogans, and any nuanced discussion of the efficacy of the actual strategies withered due to a variety of political and social factors.

Drawing on newly released weapons effects information along with new information about Soviet capabilities as well as risky and covert espionage missions, Emergency War Plan provides a completely new examination of American nuclear deterrence strategy during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, the first such study since the 1980s. Ultimately what emerges is a picture of a gargantuan and potentially devastating enterprise that was understood at the time by the public in only the vaguest terms but that was not as out of control as has been alleged and was more nuanced than previously understood.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Canadian Army's historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of several books, including Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007) and Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films (Potomac Books, 2020).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1640122346
• ISBN 13: 9781640122345
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 552
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• Personne responsable: non disponible