NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Euroep, 1949-2000

Heuser, B. (1997) NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Euroep, 1949-2000. Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press: Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9780333673652

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Abstract

This is vol. I of my two-volume study of the nuclear strategies/strategy preferences of NATO collectively, and individually of Britain, France, and West Germany in the Cold War. It shows that NATO strategy was a fragile compromise, and that these three countries, all within range of Soviet medium/intermediate range nuclear missiles and thus with less geostrategic difference than in previous military threat contexts, had wildly divergent strategies/preferences which cannot be explained merely by geography. It raises the question of what made them so different, addressed in Volume II "Nuclear Mentalities" (q.v.).

Item Type:Books
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Heuser, Professor Beatrice
Authors: Heuser, B.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics
Publisher:Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press
ISBN:9780333673652
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