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Author Wohlstetter, Albert

Title Nuclear heuristics : selected writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter / Robert Zarate, Henry Sokolski, editors
Published [Carlisle, Pa.] : [Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College], [2009]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 679 pages)
Series War and Terrorism Collection
Academic OneFile
Military & Intelligence Database
Contents Introduction -- Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy / Robert Zarate -- I. Analysis and Design of Strategic Policy -- Commentary: How He Worked / Henry S. Rowan -- Theory and Opposed-Systems Design (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter -- II. Nuclear Deterrence -- Commentary: On Nuclear Deterrence / Alain C. Enthoven -- The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958) / Albert Wohlstetter -- Excerpts on "Missile Gap" from General Comments on Senator Kennedy's National Security Speeches (circa 1960) / Albert Wohlstetter -- On the Genesis of Nuclear Strategy: Letter to Michael Howard (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter -- III. Nuclear Proliferation -- Commentary: Timely Warnings Still -- the Wohlstetters and Nuclear Proliferation / Henry Sokolski -- Nuclear Sharing: NATO and the N + 1 Country (1961) / Albert Wohlstetter -- Spreading the Bomb without Quite Breaking the Rules (1976) / Albert Wohlstetter -- The Buddha Smiles: U.S. Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb (1978) / Roberta Wohlstetter -- Signals, Noise and Article IV (1979) / Albert Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones and Roberta Wohlstetter -- Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the "FSU" and the "FSRs" (1992) / Albert Wohlstetter -- IV. Arms Race Myth vs. Strategic Competition's Reality -- Commentary: Arms Race Myths vs. Strategic Competition's Reality / Richard Perle -- The Case for Strategic Force Defense (1969) / Albert Wohlstetter -- Racing Forward? Or Ambling Back? (1976) / Albert Wohlstetter -- On Arms Control: What We Should Look for in an Arms Agreement (1985) / Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter -- Arms Control That Could Work (1985) / Albert Wohlstetter and Brian G. Chow -- V. Towards Discriminate Deterrence -- Commentary: Towards Discriminate Deterrence / Stephen J. Lukasik -- Strength, Interest and New Technologies (1968) / Albert Wohlstetter -- How Much is Enough? How Mad is MAD? (1974) / Albert Wohlstetter -- Bishops, Statesmen, and Other Strategists on the Bombing of Innocents (1983) / Albert Wohlstetter -- Connecting the Elements of the Strategy: Excerpt from Discriminate Deterrence (1988) -- The Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy -- RPM, or Revolutions by the Minute (1992) / Albert Wohlstetter -- VI. Limiting and Managing New Risks -- Commentary: Strategy as a Profession in the Future Security Environment / Andrew W. Marshall -- End of Cold War? End of History and All War?: Excerpt from an Outline for a Memoir (1989) / Albert Wohlstetter -- The Fax Shall Make You Free (1990) / Albert Wohlstetter -- The Bitter End: The Case for Re-Intervention in Iraq (1991) / Albert Wohlstetter and Fred S. Hoffman -- What the West Must Do in Bosnia: An Open Letter to President Clinton (1993) / Albert Wohlstetter and Margaret Thatcher -- Boris Yeltsin as Abraham Lincoln? (1995) / Albert Wohlstetter
Summary Pioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-1997) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two of America's most consequential, innovative and controversial strategists. Through the clarity of their thinking, the rigor of their research, and the persistence of their personalities, they were able to shape the views and aid the decisions of Democratic and Republican policy makers both during and after the Cold War. Although the Wohlstetters' strategic concepts and analytical methods continue to be highly influential, no book has brought together their most important essays--until now
Notes Title from title screen (viewed on January 26, 2009)
"January 2009."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Nuclear nonproliferation.
Deterrence (Strategy)
Nuclear weapons -- Developing countries
Ballistic missile defenses -- History
National security -- United States.
Security, International.
Ballistic missile defenses
Deterrence (Strategy)
Military policy
National security
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Security, International
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- 20th century
Subject Developing countries
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wohlstetter, Roberta.
Zarate, Robert.
Sokolski, Henry D.
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
ISBN 1584873701
9781584873709