Title The amateur strategist : intuitive deterrence theories and the politics of the nuclear arms race / James DeNardo

Published Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995

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W'PONDS	327.174 Den/Asi		AVAILABLE

Description x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. A Primer on the Cold War Nuclear Debate -- 3. An Introduction to Intuitive Deterrence Theories -- 4. Competing Hypotheses About Nuclear Thinking -- 5. The Novice Strategists -- 6. The Intuitive Calculus of Nuclear Deterrence -- 7. Statistical Tests of the Intuitive Deterrence Calculus -- 8. Expert Nuclear Reasoning -- 9. The Factional Politics of Strategy and the End of the Cold War Arms Race -- 10. Nuclear Thinking After the Cold War Analysis Nuclear weapons Arms control Notes Includes index Subject Deterrence (Strategy) -- Psychological aspects. Nuclear arms control. LC no. 94040411 ISBN 052148121X 0521484464

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