Title: First strike! :
Authors: Aldridge, Robert C.
Date: 1983
Publisher: South End Press,
Physical description: x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: The first strike syndrome -- The strategic nuclear triad -- Trident: the ultimate first weapon -- MX: research and development for doomsday -- Penetrating bombers and cruise missiles -- Anti-submarine warfare -- Missile and bomber defense -- Space warfare -- Command, control and communication -- What about the Russians -- The profit imperative.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arms race--Moral and ethical aspects.; Arms race.; First strike (Nuclear strategy); National security--United States; Nuclear warfare.; Nuclear weapons.; Strategic forces--United States.; United States--Military policy.