To Kill Nations American Strategy in the Air Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction 1st Edition by Edward Kaplan 9780801455506 0801455502

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ISBN 10: 0801455502

ISBN 13: 9780801455506

Author: Edward Kaplan

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.

Table of contents:

1. Antecedents

2. Declaration, Action, and the Air-Atomic Strategy

3. Finding a Place

4. The Fantastic Compression of Time

5. To Kill a Nation

6. Stalemate, Finite Deterrence, Polaris, and SIOP-62

7. New Sheriff in Town

8. End of an Era

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