Innovation and the Arms Race : : How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies / / Matthew Evangelista.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Evangelista, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Part I. Technology and the Arms Race --; Introduction --; 1. Theory and Policy --; 2. Sources of Innovation --; 3. Weapons Innovation: U.S./USSR --; Part II. From Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Star Wars --; 4. The Origins of U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons --; 5. The Origins of Soviet Tactical Nuclear Weapons --; 6. Explaining the Technological Arms Race --; 7. The Arms Race and the Academy --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501734304; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501734304
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Matthew Evangelista.

Innovation and the Arms Race offers a new account of the causes and mechanisms of the "technological arms race" between the Soviet Union and the United States—the competitive development of major weapons innovations.