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Counsels of War

Gregg Herken

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Description:Since the 1st atom bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics & think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as 100s of pages of recently declassified documents, Counsels of War is the 1st book to trace in detail the deliberations & shifting recommendations of the experts on the bomb from Hiroshima to Star Wars. Herken writes about the people whose profession it has been to think about the unthinkable--Robert McNamara, Paul Nitze, Herman Kahn, Bernard Brodie--including their intense rivalries, personal animosities & often contentious relationship with the professional military. He reveals how the influence of the scientist & strategist has extended well beyond the lab & the classroom--in the proposal of Kennedy's advisers for a nuclear "demonstration" & even a "clever 1st-strike" against the Russians, for example. Counsels of War also shatters certain popular assumptions about US nuclear policy. As Herken points out, while American doctrine stresses retaliation, strategists have always planned to pre-empt a Soviet attack. He shows that the lines in the current nuclear debate were actually drawn at the dawn of the atomic age & that the experts' technically abstruse arguments have only served to hide from the public the fundamental, deeply held--& subjective--differences at the heart of the debate. Since Hiroshima, there's been a growing awareness of the peril created by nuclear weapons, yet the crucial questions that were never adequately addressed in 1945 remain unanswered today. Given the inability of the experts to confront the essential dilemma of the nuclear age, Counsels of War calls for a new nuclear debate, one focused on American rather than Russian intentions & that seeks an answer to the fundamental, yet still unresolved question: What are these weapons for?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Counsels of War. To get started finding Counsels of War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 429

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (NY)

Release: —

ISBN: 0394527356

Description: Since the 1st atom bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics & think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as 100s of pages of recently declassified documents, Counsels of War is the 1st book to trace in detail the deliberations & shifting recommendations of the experts on the bomb from Hiroshima to Star Wars. Herken writes about the people whose profession it has been to think about the unthinkable--Robert McNamara, Paul Nitze, Herman Kahn, Bernard Brodie--including their intense rivalries, personal animosities & often contentious relationship with the professional military. He reveals how the influence of the scientist & strategist has extended well beyond the lab & the classroom--in the proposal of Kennedy's advisers for a nuclear "demonstration" & even a "clever 1st-strike" against the Russians, for example. Counsels of War also shatters certain popular assumptions about US nuclear policy. As Herken points out, while American doctrine stresses retaliation, strategists have always planned to pre-empt a Soviet attack. He shows that the lines in the current nuclear debate were actually drawn at the dawn of the atomic age & that the experts' technically abstruse arguments have only served to hide from the public the fundamental, deeply held--& subjective--differences at the heart of the debate. Since Hiroshima, there's been a growing awareness of the peril created by nuclear weapons, yet the crucial questions that were never adequately addressed in 1945 remain unanswered today. Given the inability of the experts to confront the essential dilemma of the nuclear age, Counsels of War calls for a new nuclear debate, one focused on American rather than Russian intentions & that seeks an answer to the fundamental, yet still unresolved question: What are these weapons for?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Counsels of War. To get started finding Counsels of War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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