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The double game : the demise of America's first missile defense system and the rise of strategic arms limitation / James Cameron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cameron, James (Assistant professor), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballistic missile defenses--United States--History--20th century.
- Ballistic missile defenses.
- National security--United States--History--20th century.
- National security.
- Nuclear arms control--Soviet Union--History.
- Nuclear arms control.
- Nuclear arms control--United States--History--20th century.
- Arms race--History--20th century.
- Arms race.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- How did the United States move from position of nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1960s to a period of arms control based on nuclear parity the doctrine of mutual assured destruction in 1972? Drawing on declassified records of conversations between three presidents and their most trusted advisors, this book provides a new and fascinating answer to this question.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045994-8
- 0-19-045995-6
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