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The End of Victory - Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age (Hardcover)
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The End of Victory - Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age (Hardcover)
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The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war
through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the
National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC).
From 1953 onward, US leaders wanted to know as precisely as
possible what would happen if they failed in a nuclear war—how
many Americans would die and how much of the country would remain.
The NESC told Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy what
would be the result of the worst failure of American strategy—a
maximum-effort surprise Soviet nuclear assault on the United
States. Edward Kaplan details how NESC studies provided key
information for presidential decisions on the objectives of a war
with the USSR and on the size and shape of the US military. The
subcommittee delivered its annual reports in a decade marked by
crises in Berlin, Quemoy and Matsu, Laos, and Cuba, among others.
During these critical moments and day-to-day containment of the
USSR, the NESC's reports offered the best estimates of the
butcher's bill of conflict and of how to reduce the cost in
American lives. Taken with the intelligence community's assessment
of the probability of a surprise attack, the NESC's work framed the
risks of US strategy in the chilliest years of the Cold War. The
End of Victory reveals how all policy decisions run risks—and
ones involving military force run grave ones—though they can
rarely be known with precision.
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