Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War - Hardcover

Callahan, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006016266X ISBN 13: 9780060162665

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1990

Synopsis

Documents the struggles, open and secret, over national policy toward the Soviet Union since the end of World War II, with a focus on the long, influential career of Paul Nitze

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In his complementary roles as Cold War crusader and opponent of nuclear arms reductions, Paul Nitze called for a heavily armed postwar U.S. to counteract a purported Soviet drive for global domination. Callahan, managing editor of American Prospect , portrays this adviser to six presidents from FDR to Reagan as a technocrat fixated on the use of military force, a man whose moral righteousness blinded him to the contradictions of U.S. foreign policy. He faults the die-hard anticommunist for using Reagan's high-tech fantasy of a "Star Wars" defensive shield in space as a bargaining chip. Interweaving engrossing biography with a behind-the-scenes history of the Cold War, Callahan illuminates how massive military spending has helped reduce the U.S. to the world's largest debtor nation.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 006016266X
• ISBN 13: 9780060162665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 572