Retreat From DoomsdayIn 'Retreat from Doomsday', John Mueller traces the major Cold War crises of the postwar era - Korea, Cuba, Vietnam - and concludes that despite their revolutionary and expansionist ideology, former Soviet leaders never saw major war as a sensible tactic. |
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COLD WAR NUCLEAR WEAPONS | 79 |
Cold War Containment and the Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons | 93 |
Korea and the Demise of Limited War | 117 |
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| Titre | Retreat From Doomsday |
| Auteur | John Mueller |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Basic Books, 1989 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 8 août 2009 |
| ISBN | 0465069398, 9780465069392 |
| Longueur | 327 pages |
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