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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Evangelista, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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

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