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Nixon's Nuclear Specter : The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War / William Burr, Jeffrey P. Kimball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burr, William.
- Series:
- Modern war studies.
- Modern war studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Diplomatic history.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- United States--Military policy--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1969-1974.
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Influence.
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book about Nixon and Kissinger's Madman diplomacy in 1969 concerning the Vietnam War, which culminated in a secret nuclear alert in October of that year. The story is set in the context of nuclear threat-making during the Cold War from 1945 to 1973, bureaucratic infighting, international diplomacy, domestic politics, the antiwar movement, and the nuclear taboo.
- Contents:
- Prelude: nuclear diplomacy and notions about nuclear use from Truman to Johnson, August 1945-January 1969
- The madman theory: Mr. Nixon, Dr. Kissinger, and Dr. Strangelove, 1945-1969
- The "big game" and the bombing of Cambodia, December 1968-March 1969
- The Vance ploy and the Mining ruse, March-April 1969
- The Mining ruse, threat diplomacy, peace plans, and withdrawals, April-July 1969
- The first Duck Hook Plan, the "Nixon Doctrine," and a deadline, July-August 1969
- Toward the November option: Duck Hook and Pruning Knife, July-September 1969
- To escalate or not to escalate? September-October 1969
- The secret nuclear alert, October 1969
- Epilogue: aftermaths and assessments.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700620838
- OCLC:
- 908903920
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