Thinking beyond the unthinkable
Subtitle: harnessing doom from the Cold War to the War on Terror
By: Jonathan Stevenson.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780670019014
Subjects: Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History; Deterrence (Strategy); Cold War; War on Terrorism, 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Harnessing doom; title: American ways of thinking; title: Sidelining the unthinkable; title: Intellectual dislocations of the Cold War; title: The halting leap forward; title: Selective nostalgia.