To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction by Edward KaplanCall Number: Ebook and 355.0217097309045 KAPLTO2015
ISBN: 0801452481
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation s strategic airpower and saw the Air Force displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. 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.