World in the Twentieth Century: Cold War: Nuclear Weapons

Study of strategic action available to the United States, with special attention to nuclear restraint and its possible consequences, based on material originally prepared for the Rand Corporation.

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested the American scientific community during the Cold War.

Reviews the development of modern military strategy to World War II, and considers new problems and new approaches. The study was undertaken by the Rand Corporation as a part of its research program for the United States Air Force.

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.