Title: Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955 /
Authors: Johnston, Andrew M., 1963-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Military policy.; Nuclear weapons Europe; Nuclear warfare.; Deterrence (Strategy); Armes nucléaires Europe.; Dissuasion (Stratégie); Guerre nucléaire.; Deterrence (Strategy); HISTORY Military Nuclear Warfare.; International relations.; Military policy; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear weapons.; Nuclear weapons; Warfare and Defence.
Abstract: "In this book Johnston argues that the preemptive first use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural "socialization," by which the United States reconstituted the previously nationalist strategic cultures of the European allies into a seamless western community directed by Washington."--Jacket.