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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 1 halftone, 5 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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