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Icarus Restrained An Intellctual History Of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945-1960

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Conventional wisdom has it that U.S strategic policy has been deeply influenced by a highly technonocratic, apolitical approach to arms control that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In this work, Jennifer Sims qualifies and in some cases overturns this view, finding the early postwar period to be rich source for medern arms control theory.

The Baruch years, typically though tobe dominated by ineffectual proposals for the abolition of nuclear arms, were also a time of creative thinking about nuclear stability and the relationship of arms control to strategic planning. Similarly, the 1950s have often been characterized as dominated by cynical or idealistic disarmament proposals, yet Sims also find in this period the first formulation of mutual assured destrruction in the writing of a missile builder and uncovers bold notions of comparative risk and measured restraint in the musings of frustrated scientists.

Most of all, Icarus Restrained confronts the myth of U.S. nuclear naivete: that U.S. arms

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Judul Seri

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900 Sim i

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America : West View Press., 1990

Deskripsi Fisik

x, 264 Hlm.; 23 cm

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Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

813377501

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900

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