The amateur strategist : intuitive deterrence theories and the politics of the nuclear arms race /

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Author / Creator:DeNardo, James, 1949-
Imprint:Cambridge : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Description:x, 317 p.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1744104
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ISBN:052148121X (hard)
0521484464 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A primer on the Cold War nuclear debate
  • 3. An introduction to intuitive deterrence theories
  • 4. Competing hypotheses about nuclear thinking
  • 5. The novice strategists
  • 6. The intuitive calculus of nuclear deterrence
  • 7. Statistical tests of the intuitive nuclear calculus
  • 8. Expert nuclear reasoning
  • 9. The factional politics of strategy and the end of the Cold War arms race
  • 10. Nuclear thinking after the cold war