Moving Targets
by Scott Douglas Sagan
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Shows how targeting decisions have reflected the judgments of various American administrations on what will and won't deter a nuclear attack.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Dedication
- In memory of my grandfather Bishop J. Waskom Pickett
- First words
- Many Americans feared the future at the dawn of the nuclear age.
- Quotations
- The Soviet A-bomb test in August 1949 produced two fundamental changes in U.S. nuclear strategy. First, the Soviet Union's atomic weapons, rather than the "war-making" potential of its industries, now posed the greatest threa... (show all)t to the United States. Second, the traditional assumption that the United States could permit an aggressor to decide when and where to start a war, and still have sufficient strength to recover and mobilize for eventual victory, was severely challenged.
- Publisher's editor
- Carolyn Wenger
- Blurbers
- Betts, Richard K.; Ullman, Richard H.
Classifications
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 355.0217 — Society, government, & culture Public administration & military science The Military - Land, Air & Sea / Warfare War Topics Nuclear War
- LCC
- UA23 .S215 — Military Science Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation By region or country
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- 19
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- 1,336,928
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- (4.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
