Avoiding Armageddon - Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1963

Andrew Richter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Windsor.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1 The Defence and Security Environment, 1945-9
2 Canada's Air Defence Debate
3 Canadian Views on Nuclear Weapons and Related Issues of Strategy
4 The Canadian Debate on the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons
5 Canadian Conceptual Understanding of Arms Control
6 Links between Canadian Strategic Thinking and Defence Policy, 1950-63
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Andrew Richter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Windsor.

Summary

An examination of Canadian military thinking on key issues of the nuclear age, such as deterrence, arms control, strategic stability, air defence, and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Richter
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2002
• EAN: 9780774808880
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-0888-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H; Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration