To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War PlansBlack Rose Books Ltd., 1987 - 356 Seiten To Win a Nuclear War records as fully as we are likely to find what has gone on in the minds of American leaders and nuclear strategists on this awesome subject during these fateful forty years. It is an appalling story... This book compels us to re-think and re-write the history of the Cold War and the arms race."--From the foreword by Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States. To Win a Nuclear War provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present. Based on recently declassified Top Secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this book meticulously traces how U.S. policy makers in over a dozen episodes have threatened to initiate a nuclear attack. The book also documents the surprising reasons why the war plans were never carried out and discloses the deeper, hidden meaning of the Star Wars program. |
Inhalt
To Win a Nuclear | 1 |
Occupying the Soviet Union | 41 |
Atomic Bombs over Berlin | 49 |
Atomic Bombs over Manchuria | 71 |
ADay | 95 |
Escalation Dominance | 125 |
Planning a First Strike | 135 |
Atomic Bombs over Vietnam and the Middle East | 155 |
Myth or Reality? | 211 |
PreWar Situation? | 227 |
Missing Link to a First Strike | 239 |
Protracted Nuclear | 261 |
What About the Russians? | 271 |
Point of No Return? | 303 |
Notes | 317 |
Bibliography | 326 |
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To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans Michio Kaku,Daniel Axelrod Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1987 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ABM system Acheson Air Force American arms race ASAT atomic attack atomic bomb atomic weapons bombers BROILER Brzezinski called Carter Chiefs of Staff China Committee Communist conventional Council on Foreign counterforce crisis cruise missile deployed destroy deterrence Dulles Eisenhower enemy Escalation Dominance escalation ladder Europe foreign policy Foreign Relations Forrestal hydrogen bomb Ibid ICBMs Joint Chiefs Kennan Kissinger Korea laser launch limited nuclear McNamara million Minuteman MIRV missile silos National Security Council Nitze Nixon nuclear superiority nuclear threats nuclear war nuclear war-fighting option Paul Nitze Pentagon Pershing Pershing II PINCHER political pre-emptive President Reagan retaliation Russians SALT II satellites Schlesinger Secretary of Defense Soviet missiles Soviet Union Star Wars strike capability submarine superpowers tactical nuclear weapons targets threaten Top Secret Trident Trident II Trilateral Commission Truman U.S. military U.S. nuclear Vietnam warfare warheads World War III