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Former British Ambassador to the Soviet Union and author of the definitive account of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Sir Rodric Braithwaite offers here a tour d'horizon of nuclear policy from the end of World War II and start of the Cold War to the present day.__Armageddon____and Paranoia__unfolds the full history of nuclear weapons that began with the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union and now extends worldwide. For decades, an apocalypse seemed imminent, staved off only by the certainty that if one side launched these missiles the other would launch an equally catastrophic counterstrike. This method of avoiding all-out nuclear warfare was called "Deterrence," a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). Still, though neither side actively wanted to plunge the world into nuclear wasteland, the possibility of war by misjudgment or mistake meant fears could never be entirely assuaged.Both an exploration of Deterrence and the long history of superpower nuclear policy,__Armageddon and Paranoia__comes at a time when tensions surrounding nuclear armament have begun mounting once more. No book until this one has offered so comprehensive a hist

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Author

Rodric Braithwaite

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781257197

Category

history

Subjects

History, Military, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14