Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 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?