The revolution that failed : nuclear competition, arms control, and the Cold War / Brendan Rittenhou...
The revolution that failed : nuclear competition, arms control, and the Cold War / Brendan Rittenhou...
The revolution that failed : nuclear competition, arms control, and the Cold War / Brendan Rittenhouse Green.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2513
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English
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xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction : a revolution, or what? -- The nuclear revolution revisited -- The delicacy of the nuclear balance -- Comparative constitutional fitness -- Testing the argument against its competitors -- Nixon and the origins of renewed nuclear competition, 1969-1971 -- Nixon, Ford, and accelerating n...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
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2020.
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"'The most important points are often the simplest ones,' Robert Jervis avers. 'No one can win an all-out nuclear war. While this statement is open to dispute, I maintain that it is correct and that its implications have not been fully appreciated.' In this statement lie both the glory and the shame of the theory of the nuclear revolution. On the o...
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The revolution that failed : nuclear competition, arms control, and the Cold War / Brendan Rittenhouse Green.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9781108800716
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G 2020/2513
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74VKaPxOoPPX
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9781108489867 hardcover
1108489869 hardcover
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327.174709045
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991024315906602626
