Escalation and the Nuclear Option

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966. 161, footnotes, appendix, index, corners of a few pages bent, bookplate. The author was a military strategist, and the initial architect of nuclear deterrence strategy. This book is a critical discussion of the prevalent consensus that general war can scarcely occur except through escalation from introducting nuclear wapons into lesser conflicts. Condition: good.

Keywords: Nuclear Weapons, Nonproliferation, NATO, Cold War, Vietnam War, Containment, ICBM's, Strategic Attack, Nuclear Deterrence

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