The balance of terror: nuclear weapons and the illusion of security, 1945 - 1985
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| Beschreibung: | XXII, 291 S. |
| ISBN: | 0807005207 0807005193 |
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| adam_text | The Balance of Terror
Nuclear Weapons and the
Illusion of Security, 1945-1985
Revised and Updated
Edgar Bottome
Beacon Press Boston
Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition xi
Introduction xiii
I • EARLY YEARS OF THE ARMS RACE (1945-1952) • 1
Postwar Disarmament 1
The B-36 and the H-Bomb 6
Korea and National Security Paper #68 14
II - THE EISENHOWER YEARS: MASSIVE RETALIATION
AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY (1953-1957) • 18
Massive Retaliation 18
Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO 25
Collective Security 31
The Bomber Gap 35
III • THE MISSILE GAP: A STUDY IN MYTH CREATION
(1957-1961) • 39
Soviet Strategy, American Intelligence, and
the Missile Gap 41
Budgetary, Partisan, and Military
Effects of the Missile Gap 58
The Impact of the Missile Gap Abroad 69
IV • THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION: FLEXIBLE RE
SPONSE AND SECOND-STRIKE COUNTERFORCE
(1961-1963) • 74
Flexible Response 77
Second-Strike Counterforce 80
Vietnam, Berlin, and Cuba- 86
The Test Ban Treaty 96
NATO 97
ix
X CONTENTS
V • JOHNSON-NIXON: LOGIC FULFILLED
(1963-1970) • 111
American Strategic Superiority 116
Soviet Attitudes 123
ABM and MIRV 125
The Soviet Reaction 131
Nixon and Laird 133
VI • THE 1970s: TURBULENCE IN AMERICAN
FOREIGN POLICY • 147
Vietnam: The Failure of American Foreign Policy 148
SALT I: The Illusion of Arms Control 155
The Committee on the Present Danger and
the Trilateralists 159
Carter and the Balance of Terror—1977 164
NATO: First Use and Nuclear Coupling 168
The Year of Decision—1979 177
The Carter Doctrine and Presidential
Directive #59 183
VII • RONALD REAGAN: MYTH AND REALITY
IN THE NUCLEAR AGE • 191
U S and USSR Strategic Force Levels—1982 195
The Arms Race: Escalation or Arms Control? 200
The Window of Vulnerability 202
The Spending Gap 204
The Strategic Defense Initiative 208
Nuclear Winter: Controlling the Doomsday
Machine 213
Common Control, Communications, and
Intelligence C3I 216
Euromissiles: Nuclear Weapons and NATO 219
Decoupling Europe: A Diplomatic Solution 226
The Deadly Connection 229
Conclusion 232
VIII • EPILOGUE • 235
Glossary 243
Notes 255
Index 283
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