Title: Hegemony and culture in the origins of NATO nuclear first-use, 1945-1955
Description: "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.
Subjects: Deterrence (Strategy), Military policy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear weapons, Armes nucléaires, Dissuasion (Stratégie), Guerre nucléaire, HISTORY, Military, International relations, Warfare and Defence
Places: Europe