Charlton: from Deterrence: to Defense: the inside Story of Strategic Policy (Cloth) - Rilegato

From Deterrence to Defense: The inside Story of Strategic Policy.

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Descrizione libro Condizione: Gut. 154 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Annotation on jacket and endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. / Anmerkung auf Umschlag und Vorsatzblatt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Twenty-three eminent Americans and Europeans among them President Carter, Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, Paul Nitze, Dean Rusk, Gerard Smith, Caspar Weinberger, Edward Heath, Helmut Schmidt, Field Marshal Lord Carvertell the story of American strategic policy in this unique oral history. These individuals helped to swing the debate on strategy from deterrence to détente to defense. Together they created the existing architecture of nuclear deterrence, based on the assumption of "mutual assured destruction" (with its stark acronym, MAD), which is now being overtaken by President Reagan's faith in the defensive system known almost universally as Star Wars. Why has disillusion with arms control taken root, and what are the arguments currently being made for strategic defense as a realistic alternative? This Star Wars history chronicles the American strategic debate over the last two decades through no-holds-barred interviews with the men whose views and advice have directly influenced crucial nuclear decisions. In the 1960s American strategists took the view that defense against ballistic missiles should be all but abandoned. This led to the ABM treaty, centerpiece of the first arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. What made them change their minds? Is it possible that the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) will be successfully developed, thus making ballistic missiles "impotent" and "obsolete"? If so, how will the competition between the contending wills of the Soviet Union and the United States be transformed? The momentous dialogue is central to our time, and this book provides full documentation of our harrowing journey to this place in the history of the world. - Michael Charlton has broad experience as a political journalist and interviewer, having participated in many current affairs programs for BBC radio and television. His previous books include Many Reasons Why (the record of American involvement in Vietnam), The Price of Victory (an oral history of British diplomacy in Europe after World War II), and The Eagle and the Small Birds: Crisis in the Soviet Empire from Yalta to Solidarity. ISBN 9780674323469 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 472 Original cloth with dust jacket. Codice articolo 1183216

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