Research Catalog

Title

The wizards of Armageddon / Fred Kaplan ; [new foreword by Martin J. Sherwin].

Author

Kaplan, Fred M.

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [1991]

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Details

Additional Authors

Sherwin, Martin J.

Description

452 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Stanford nuclear age series

Uniform Title

Stanford nuclear age series.

Subjects

• Military research
• Strategy
• 1900-1999
• History
• United States > Military policy
• Kärnvapenkrigföring
• Military research > United States > History > 20th century
• Nuclear weapons
• Strategy > History > 20th century
• Nuclear warfare
• Kernwapens
• Bewapeningswedloop
• Military policy
• nuclear wars
• Nuclear Warfare

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "The untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the bomb"--Cover p. [1].
• Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1983.
• "SP 290"--Cover p. [1].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-430) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Martin J. Sherwin -- Year zero -- Living with the bomb -- Planning for war -- On the beach at RAND -- The superbomb -- The vulnerability study -- The hydra-headed monster -- The Gaither committee -- The report of Maximum Danger -- The missile gap -- The massive-retaliation speech -- The limited-war critique -- Counterforce -- Dr. Strangelove -- The real rivalry -- The Whiz kids -- Two briefings -- The SIOP and the road to Ann Arbor -- The gap that never was -- The crises -- Shelter mania -- Damage unlimited -- Vietnam: Stalemate -- The ABM debate -- The new generation -- Dancing in the dark.

ISBN

• 0804718849
• 9780804718844

LCCN

90071236

OCLC

• ocm25078984
• 25078984
• SCSB-1946519

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library