Armageddon's Shortening Fuse: How Advances in Nuclear Weapons Technology Pushed Strategists to Mutually Assured Destruction, 1945--1962 (2013)
The article discusses how the development of nuclear weapons technology in the early years of the Cold War led U.S. and Soviet foreign policy and military strategists' to embrace and plan around the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD). The author begins by explaining the complications of air delivery of atomic bombs in the late 1940s along with Soviet bomb testing. He goes on to explain advances in American ballistic missile development, which caused conflict with the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) fleet of long-range bomber planes. U.S. President John F. Kennedy's support for ballistic missile strategy is explained. The author concludes that these missiles eventually acted as deterrents for nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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