Euromissiles : : The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO / / Susan Colbourn.

In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe.   In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 7 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Terminology
  • Introduction: Security and Survival
  • Part One. Decide
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Sixties Stalemate
  • Chapter 2 Parity’s Problems
  • Chapter 3 Shades of Gray
  • Chapter 4 Fiasco!
  • Chapter 5 It Takes Two
  • Part Two. Deploy
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 6 End the Arms Race, Not the Human Race
  • Chapter 7 Moons and Green Cheese
  • Chapter 8 First Principles
  • Chapter 9 The Year of the Missile
  • Part Three. Destroy
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 10 The Empty Chair
  • Chapter 11 Who’s Afraid of Gorbachev?
  • Chapter 12 Blast from the Past
  • Conclusion: Time and Chance
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index