Edward Kaplan (Author)
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.
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Dvorak, Darrell F.;
(2013)
The First Atomic Bomb Mission Trinity B-29 Operations Three Weeks before Hiroshima
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Michael W. Hankins;
(2021)
Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
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Edward Kaplan;
(2022)
The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
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Spinardi, Graham;
(2010)
The Rise and Fall of Safeguard: Anti-ballistic Missile Technology and the Nixon Administration
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Stern, Sheldon M.;
(2012)
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths Versus Reality
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Pomeroy, Steven Anthony;
(2006)
Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles,1956--1983
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Nicholas Michael Sambaluk;
(2015)
The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security
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Hugh Gusterson;
(2016)
Drone: Remote Control Warfare
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Schwartz, Norton A.;
(2009)
The Air Force's Enduring Legacy of Nuclear Deterrence
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Michael Napier;
(2021)
Korean Air War: Sabres, MiGs and Meteors, 1950–53
(/isis/citation/CBB876595867/)
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Frandsen, Bert;
(2003)
Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War
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Alison, John;
Mcgee, Charles;
Taylor, William;
(2007)
Emerging Air Power: The World War II Era
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Slayton, Rebecca;
(2013)
Arguments That Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949--2012
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin;
(2021)
The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
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Alex Roland;
(2021)
Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex
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Harvey, A. D.;
(2013)
Air Warfare in Perspective
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Head, William P.;
(2013)
The Battle for Ra's Al-Khafji and the Effects of Air Power January 29--February 1, 1991 Part II
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Krzysztof Dabrowski;
(2021)
Tsar Bomba: Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 1949-1962
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Frank L. Smith;
(2014)
American Biodefense: How Dangerous Ideas About Biological Weapons Shape National Security
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Siler, Stetson M.;
(2008)
Operation Just Cause: An Air Power Perspective
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