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NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000

Heuser, B. (1997) NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000. Macmillan and St Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York, pp256. ISBN 0312174985

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Abstract/Summary

This is vol. I of my two-volume study of the nuclear strategies/strategy preferences of NATO collectively, and individually of Britain, France, and West Germany in the Cold War. It shows that NATO strategy was a fragile compromise, and that these three countries, all within range of Soviet medium/intermediate range nuclear missiles and thus with less geostrategic difference than in previous military threat contexts, had wildly divergent strategies/preferences which cannot be explained merely by geography. It raises the question of what made them so different, addressed in Volume II "Nuclear Mentalities" (q.v.)

Item Type:Book
Refereed:No
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Politics and International Relations
ID Code:30448
Publisher:Macmillan and St Martin's Press

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