Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 329 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1403970246
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1403976937
Content:
Argues that the preemptive first-use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Building a bridge between theory and practice, this book examines the usefulness of cultural theory in international history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Persistence of Nuclear First-Use; Chapter One: Culture, War, Empire; Chapter Two: The Persistence of the Old Regime: British, French, and American Strategic Thinking before 1949; Chapter Three: ""Disembodied Military Planning"": The Political-Economy of Strategy, 1949-50; Chapter Four: Mind the Gap: The Paper Divisions and Cardboard Wings of the Lisbon Force Goals; Chapter Five: Strategies of Peripheralism: France, Britain, and the American New Look
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Chapter Six: Two Cultures of Massive Retaliation: Neo-isolationism and the Idealism of John Foster DullesChapter Seven: Hegemony Versus Multilateralism: Nuclear Sharing and NATO's Search for Cohesion; Chapter Eight: ""Our Plans Might Not be Purely Defensive"": Leading NATO into the Nuclear Era; Conclusion: What Does Culture Tell Us About NATO Nuclear Strategy That We Were Afraid To Ask?; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403970244
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hegemony and Culture in the Origins of NATO Nuclear First Use, 1945-1955
Language:
English
