To Kill Nations (eBook)

American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

Edward Kaplan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
276 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5549-0 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field."e;- Strategy BridgeIn 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 (19501965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy.Kaplan throws into question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone, 5 tables
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Gewicht: 28 g
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: air-atomic strategy • American History • american nuclear history • American strategic airpower • American strategic bombing strategy • books about military strategy • books about the Cold War • books for military studies • Cold War nuclear strategy • cold war politics • early air-atomic era • eisenhower national defense • Eisenhower's New Look security policy • Eisenhower's nuclear diplomacy • Eisenhower's nuclear policy • Eisenhower's nuclear strategy • finite deterrence • history of air-atomic strategy • jkf national defense • kennedy administration history • Military Strategy • military strategy history • Military Studies • mutually assured destruction • mutually assured destruction strategy • national defense after world war II • national defense history • National Security Strategy • nuclear deterrence scholar • Nuclear War • nuclear warfare history • nuclear weapon history • nuclear weapons • nuclear weapons studies • political science theory • Robert McNamara • soviet union mutually assured destruction • Strategic Air Command • Strategic Air Command history • strategic doctrine of mutually assured destruction • studies of weapons development • the rise of mutually assured destruction • US nuclear strategy • U.S. nuclear war planning • War Studies • war with the soviet union
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-5549-9 / 0801455499
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-5549-0 / 9780801455490