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Interviews with American and European political leaders document the development and logic of current U.S. nuclear policy and the goals of the Strategic Defense Initiative
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In this clear, timely, accessible overview of changes in U.S. nuclear strategic policy over the past 25 years, BBC journalist Charlton interviews many of the American government officials involved currently and in the past in nuclear decision making. Robert McNamara, the formulator of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) as the keystone of nuclear deterrence, states that the " 'Star Wars' initiative is bound to lead, in my opinion . . . to an expansion of Soviet offensive forces." Henry Kissinger, the man who tried to "link" arms control with other international agreements, states that he believes "nuclear weapons impose the necessity of co-existence." Richard Perle and other Reagan administration officials maintain suspiciously that "the Soviets will always be prepared to do business with us if it produces an advantage for the Soviet Union." Noting that he thinks the U.S. has military superiority over the Soviets, former President Carter says, "What we define as equality almost inevitably is going to be superiority." And Edward Teller, "father of the H-bomb" and an early proponent of Star Wars, says "Defence might suffice to save some remnants of our civilisation." Including a chapter of discussion with top European officials, this book presents a solid, informative look at the problem of devising principles for wagingor avoidingnuclear war.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0674323467
- ISBN 13 9780674323469
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages154
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Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 1183216
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