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To Kill Nations - American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction (Paperback)
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To Kill Nations - American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction (Paperback)
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In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American
strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early
air-atomic era to a later period (1950-1965) in which the Soviet
Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and
ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and
gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. Kaplan throws into
question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic
doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural,
institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes
insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they
could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the
suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of
Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the
marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of
ballistic missiles.
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