Description |
1 online resource (x, 329 pages) |
Contents |
The Persistence of Nuclear First-Use -- Culture, War, Empire -- The Persistence of the Old Regime: British, French and American Strategic Culture before 1949 -- Disembodied Military Planning: the Political-Economy of Conventional Strategy, 1949-1950 -- Mind the Gap: The Paper Divisions and Cardboard Wings of the Lisbon Force Goals, 1951-1952 -- Strategies of Peripheralism: France, Britain and the American New Look -- Two Cultures of Massive Retaliation: Neo-Isolationism and the Idealism of John Foster Dulles -- Hegemony Versus Multilateralism: Nuclear Sharing and NATO's Search for Cohesion -- "Our Plans May Not Be Purely Defensive": Leading NATO into the Nuclear Era -- Conclusion: What Does Culture Tell Us about NATO Nuclear Strategy that We Were Afraid to Ask? |
Summary |
Johnston argues that the preemptive first use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural "socialization," by which the United States reconstituted the previously nationalist strategic cultures of the European allies into a seamless western community directed by Washington |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-317) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Military policy
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SUBJECT |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast |
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Nuclear weapons -- Europe
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Nuclear warfare.
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Nuclear Warfare
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nuclear wars.
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Nuclear weapons.
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International relations.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Nuclear Warfare.
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Warfare and Defence.
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Deterrence (Strategy)
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Military policy
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Nuclear warfare
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Nuclear weapons
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Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781403976932 |
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1403976937 |
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128136777X |
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9781281367778 |
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9781403970244 |
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1403970246 |
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