Double Game

Double Game

The Demise of America's First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation

Cameron, James (Assistant Professor of International Relations, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Fundacao Getulio Vargas)

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2017

248

Dura

Inglês

9780190459925

15 a 20 dias

Drawing on declassified records of presidential conversations, this book shows how presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon engaged in a double game, hiding their true beliefs behind a facade of strategic language while secretly grappling with the complex realities of the nuclear age.
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Ch. 1. Rational Superiority, Crises, and Arms Control, 1961-1963 Ch. 2. The Great Society and the Politics of Assured Destruction, 1963-1966 Ch. 3. First Steps toward SALT, 1966-1969 Ch. 4. Collapse of the Consensus and the Struggle for Coherence, 1969-1970 Ch. 5. Reconciliation with Necessity and the Race to the Summit, 1971-1972 Conclusion: The Double Game Notes Sources Index
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