To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear...
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To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction by Kaplan, Edward

To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

$486.51

To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

$486.51
Author: Edward Kaplan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950-1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy.

Kaplan throws into question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles.



Author: Edward Kaplan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781501752049

About the Author

Edward Kaplan is Associate Professor of History at the US Air Force Academy. He is coeditor of Atlas for Introduction to Military History and editor of High Flight.


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