To Kill Nations : : American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction / / Edward Kaplan.
Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation's strategic airpower and saw the Air Force displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and...
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Kaplan, Edward, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut To Kill Nations : American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction / Edward Kaplan. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (276 p.) : 1 halftone, 5 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Prevail -- 1. Antecedents -- 2. Declaration, Action, and the Air-Atomic Strategy -- 3. Finding a Place -- 4. The Fantastic Compression of Time -- 5. To Kill a Nation -- 6. Stalemate, Finite Deterrence, Polaris, and SIOP-62 -- 7. New Sheriff in Town -- 8. End of an Era -- Conclusion: Survive -- Key to Sources and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation's strategic airpower and saw the Air Force displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. 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 by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. The shift to mutually assured destruction (MAD) via general nuclear exchange steadily took precedence in strategic thinking and budget allocations. Soon American nuclear-armed airborne bomber fleets shaped for conventionally defined-if implausible, then impossible-victory were supplanted by missile-based forces designed to survive and punish. The Air Force receded from the forefront of American security policy.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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Military History. Political Science & Political History. U.S. History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801452482 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455506 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801455506 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801455506/original |
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