Avoiding Armageddon
Subtitle: Canadian military strategy and nuclear weapons, 1950-63
By: Andrew Richter.
Series: Studies in Canadian military history,; 2
Publisher: UBC Press; Univ of British Columbia Pr
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Strategy.; Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Canada -- History.; Arms control -- Government policy -- Canada.; Armes nucléaires -- Politique gouvernementale -- Canada -- Histoire.; Armements -- Contrôle -- Politique gouvernementale -- Canada.; Canada -- Military policy.; Canada -- Aspect stratégique.; Canada -- Politique militaire -- Histoire.
Description: "Canadian appreciation of deterrence, arms control, and strategic stability differed conceptually from the models that emerged in the United States. Similarly, national interests, not those thrust on Canada by the external environment, were the primary influence on Canadian thinking about air defence and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons, the two most controversial defence issues of the 1950s.".

"Richter places key historical developments under scrutiny in the context of contemporary defence debates, suggesting important lessons for today's defence planners."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: The defense and security environment, 1945-9; title: Canada's air defense debate; title: Canadian views on nuclear weapons and related issues of strategy; title: The Canadian debate on the acquisition of nuclear weapons; title: Canadian conceptual understanding of arms control; title: Links between Canadian strategic thinking and defence policy, 1950-63.