Destroying the Village - Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War

Thanks to recently declassified government documents from the early Cold War era, Craig is able to investigate what America's strategists really thought about the viability of nuclear warfare. He demonstrates that even as they were publicly attempting to make nuclear war technically feasible, many Pentagon officials were privately pessimistic regarding any nuclear strategy. Craig probes the heated arguments Eisenhower had with his national security advisors, and shows how the president conspired to make the option of war with the Soviet Union impossible.

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Campbell Craig

Summary

Using declassified government documents from the early Cold War era, this text demonstrates that even as they were publicly attempting to make nuclear war technically feasible, many American officials and leading policy makers privately rejected the feasibility of any nuclear strategy.

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• Authors: Craig Campbell, Campbell Craig, Campbell (Aberystwyth) Craig, Craig Campbell
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9780231111232
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11123-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History; Columbia American History; Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, Political science & theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Military and defence strategy, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era