The cold world they made : the strategic legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter /

In the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washington's wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to discuss deterrence and doomsday. The Cold World They Made takes a fresh look at the original power couple of s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Robin, Ron Theodore (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Wohlstetter, Albert.
Wohlstetter, Roberta.
National security > United States.
Cold War > Influence.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Military policy.
National security.
War > Influence.
United States > Military policy.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Wohlstetters' cold world
  • The Wohlstetter partnership: the early years
  • Roberta Wohlstetter: the uncertainties of surprise
  • "In dubious battle" : the Rand years
  • He is but mad North-North-west": Albert and his critics
  • Castrophobia and the free market: the Wohlstetters' moral economy
  • Discriminate interventionism: the Wohlstetters in a multipolar world
  • Slow Pearl Harbors: fear and loathing of Glasnost
  • "Do not go gentle into that good night": Albert Wohlstetter after the Cold War
  • Part II. The Wohlstetter legacy in the post-Cold War era
  • Paul Wolfowitz: Fin de Siècle all over again
  • Zalmay Khalilzad: the Orientalist
  • Richard Perle: prejudice as a cultural weapon
  • Epilogue: the Hamlet of nations?.

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