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Maxwell Air Force Base, LA: USAF Counterproliferation Center, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. viii, 507, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Contributors. Index. Format is approximately 6.75 inches by 10 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. Deterrence thinking has evolved from the Cold War to the present. During the period from 1945-1991 when the United States sought to deter attacks by the U.S.S.R. and Warsaw Pact, U.S. nuclear forces were fielded primarily to prevent nuclear war or escalation of war During the Cold War, deterrence strategy evolved over time as officials and defense strategists thought through the changes brought by nuclear weapons. Clearly after 1945, warfare had a new component. Long-range airpower gave states an intercontinental reach. The first A-bombs had an explosive power a thousand times more powerful than an equivalent weight of high explosive bombs like TNT. When thermonuclear weapons were created half a decade later,… Leer más

Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: USAF Counterproliferation Center, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. viii, 507, [1] pages. Abbreviations. Notes. Contributors. Index. Barry Schneider is associated with The Society for Military History, part of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Publishing Partner Program. He is the former Director, U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He has served as a Foreign Affairs Officer and Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, as a Congressional staffer on arms control and defense issues, and was a Senior Defense Analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy. He has taught at the Air War College. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Author of and contributor to numerous books, including Counterforce Targeting, The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm; The World's Most Threatening Terrorist Networks and Criminal Gangs; and Battlefield of the… Leer más