The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

A decade of humanitarian interventions, followed by another of counterinsurgency, has further distanced the military and the nation's civilian leadership from the world of nuclear weapons, operationally and intellectually. Warren Kozak writes in LeMay: The Life and Wars of Gen- eral Curtis LeMa...

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Published inMilitary Review Vol. 94; no. 3; p. 91
Main Author Powell, James S
Format Magazine Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Fort Leavenworth U.S. Army CGSC 01.05.2014
Department of the Army Headquarters
Subjects
Age
Arms control & disarmament
Nuclear weapons
United States > US
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Summary:A decade of humanitarian interventions, followed by another of counterinsurgency, has further distanced the military and the nation's civilian leadership from the world of nuclear weapons, operationally and intellectually. Warren Kozak writes in LeMay: The Life and Wars of Gen- eral Curtis LeMay that when Gen. Curtis LeMay joined the ticket as the vice presidential candidate in 1968, he embarrassed the Wallace campaign when he remarked on the American people's "phobia" about the use of nuclear weapons.
ISSN:0026-4148
1943-1147