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Author Kaplan, Edward, 1973- author.

Title The end of victory : prevailing in the thermonuclear age / Edward Kaplan.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Origins -- Victory -- Victory's Twilight -- Prevailing in the Space Age -- Finding the Optimum-Mix -- From Forcible Action to Coercion -- Testing Controlled Response -- War Termination and NESC's End.
Summary "The End of Victory tells the history of the enigmatic Net Evaluation Subcommittee of the National Security Council. The NESC studied the gravest potential failure of American strategy in the 1950s and '60s: a surprise Soviet nuclear attack. Its annual reports and specialized studies quantified the risks that Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy faced in a decade rife with crises, from Berlin to Cuba. The detailed work of the NESC, whose very existence was secret until the mid-1980s, has only been available to researchers in any detail since 2014. Kaplan's is the first study of the NESC as a body, documenting its value to Cold War history and strategy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject National Security Council (U.S.). Net Evaluation Subcommittee -- History.
Nuclear warfare -- Risk assessment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
National security -- United States -- Evaluation -- History -- 20th century.
Strategic culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Strategy -- History -- 20th century.
Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Cold War.
United States -- Military policy -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare
Diplomatic relations
Military planning
Military policy
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy
Strategic culture
Strategy
Soviet Union
United States
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
General & world history.
Military history.
Warfare & defence.
Nuclear weapons.
Warfare and Defence.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Kaplan, Edward A. End of victory Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022] 9781501766121 (DLC) 2022005374
ISBN 9781501766138 electronic book
1501766139 electronic book
9781501766145 electronic book
1501766147 electronic book
9781501766121 hardcover

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