The amateur strategist : intuitive deterrence theories and the politics of the nuclear arms race /
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| Author / Creator: | DeNardo, James, 1949- |
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| 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 |
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