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The Politics of Threat: Minuteman Vulnerability in American National Security Policy

By David H. Dunn (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-1-349-25829-1, 978-1-349-25827-7, 978-0-312-17611-2, 127-127-131-1
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25827-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32282782 bytes)
Series
Southampton Studies in International Policy
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 289\294
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
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Description

This work analyses the vulnerability of America's land-based missile force to a pre-emptive Soviet strike as an issue in US strategic and political debate. It examines why the issue rose to prominence in the way it did in the 1970s and then fell away as a concern in the 1980s without being solved in the way it had been presented. It details the way in which the issue was exploited for political and strategic purposes which were often at odds with a concern for this vulnerability.

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