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• Sales Rank: #1304323 in Books
  
• Published on: 1983-01-01
• Released on: 1983-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.

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The human side of the "nuclear strategists"
By rob crawford
Fred Kaplan has done something very hard to achieve: portray a bunch of, well, nerds with sympathy and humor, explaining their trains of logic and their conclusions in readable prose. It is hard because most of them were micro-economists who lived in a world of utility functions, game theory, and loops of mathematical logic - just the kind of stuff that puts many off (like me) of "public policy" as an academic field that is dominated by economists who are little more than self-important if intelligent twits - with no practical wisdom whatsoever. (One of them argued that, in the aftermath of nuclear war, if the US had 2 survivors and USSR only one, it would have won. He wasn't joking.)However, this group was important because they were trying to encapsulate nuclear weapons into their rationalist methodologies. Kaplan's book is the ideal companion to Freeman's Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, which is so dry by comparison and yet covers the strategy better. It is a fun read, though a bit overwhelming to get through as there were SO MANY of them. (There was an added interest for me, as I knew some of these characters as a student and was unimpressed with them as thinkers while respecting their impact on public policy.)Whoever thought that microeconomists following their threads of logic could have had such an enormous influence on military strategy. I never would have! If I understood it, what they did was link military considerations into a mathematical methodology that could be studied and discussed and that offered conclusions - or predictions - if (tortuously) followed to their end. This helped military planers get a handle on these issues and (perhaps) to think more clearly.Much of quality of this book is due to the fact that Kaplan is a really good reporter and not an academic who is just shuffling papers. He got out and talked to a lot of these guys, though none of them appear as particularly sympathetic characters to me. Amazingly, he used this book as his PhD disseration at MIT in poli-sci. You gotta respect him as a writer.Recommended as a colorful view of some weird thinkers who had enormous influence on our lives.

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Thinking The Unthinkable.
By Dr Barry Clayton
If you wish to understand why to give up our Trident nuclear deterrent would be the height of folly read this book. Although this book by Fred Kaplan was published over 35 years ago, it is still one of the finest accounts of how a brilliant group of American scientists devised a strategy for the nuclear age.As Nicola Sturgeon and her supporters are currently demonstrating, there is a disturbing ignorance about the nuclear deterrent. Today's warheads are horrendously powerful. Each single one is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The financial costs of replacing the Vanguard and future maintenance is massive. This is beyond dispute. However, although today's potential enemies may not be nuclear states, with the exception of Russia, anyone that has been involved with security issues knows at least one fundamental truth; you never know what is coming next. Not one think tank in the West predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Iraq of Afghanistan wars. There are numerous other examples.The theory of nuclear deterrence can seem at times to be somewhat esoteric and Byzantine .However, it needs to be understood. The nonsense talked by opponents of Trident has to be exposed and shown to be terribly misguided.Read this superb book by an eminent political scientist. I happen to have met him in America and admire his writings. That is not why I recommend this challenging and immensely important book.

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