The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
"A masterful book by one of America's preeminent strategists. . . . What the nuclear revolution has done is magnify in force and compress in time imperatives that were present in the pre-nuclear era; even the pursuit of unlimited victory was unrealistic. Jervis takes us through those implications in prose so lucid we feel we have known them all along."—Foreign Affairs"A comprehensive analysis that thrusts Jervis into the front ranks of nuclear essayists."—Kirkus Reviews"This subtle and powerful book confirms the standing of Robert Jervis as a strategic analyst of the first rank—indeed as the best of all in assessing the connections between perception and reality."—McGeorge Bundy