To Kill Nations : American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction /

To Kill Nations : American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Edward, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
United States. > Air Force > History > 20th century.
United States. > Air Force. > Strategic Air Command > History > 20th century.
Nuclear warfare > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Air warfare > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Air power > United States > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
Strategic forces > United States > History > 20th century.
Strategy > History > 20th century.
Cold War.
United States > Military policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Prevail
  • Antecedents
  • Declaration, action, and the air-atomic strategy
  • Finding a place
  • The fantastic compression of time
  • To kill a nation
  • Stalemate, finite deterrence, Polaris, and Stop-62
  • New sheriff in town
  • End of an era
  • Survive.