Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955

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Autor principal: Johnston, Andrew M., 1963-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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  • Introduction : the persistence of nuclear first-use
  • Ch. 1. Culture, war, empire
  • Ch. 2. The persistence of the old regime : British, French, and American strategic thinking before 1949
  • Ch. 3. "Disembodied military planning" : the political-economy of strategy, 1949-50
  • Ch. 4. Mind the gap : the paper divisions and cardboard wings of the Lisbon force goals
  • Ch. 5. Strategies of perpheralism : France, Britain, and the American new look
  • Ch. 6. Two cultures of massive retaliation : neo-isolationism and the idealism of John Foster Dulles
  • Ch. 7. Hegemony versus multilateralism : nuclear sharing and NATO's search for cohesion
  • Ch. 8. "Our plans might 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?