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050 00 $aUA23$b.S695 2008
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100 1 $aStevenson, Jonathan,$d1956-
245 10 $aThinking beyond the unthinkable :$bharnessing doom from the Cold War to the War on Terror /$cJonathan Stevenson.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c℗♭2008.
300 $a302 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHarnessing doom -- American ways of thinking -- Sidelining the unthinkable -- Intellectual dislocations of the Cold War -- The halting leap forward -- Selective nostalgia.
520 $a"September 11 was a product of bad intelligence and wrongheaded expectations about al-Qaeda's motivations, intentions, resourcefulness, and capabilities. But it also sprang from a failure of the kind of predictive strategic thinking that kept the world from becoming atomic rubble in the fifties and sixties. In Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable, strategic analyst Jonathan Stevenson illuminates both the genius of nuclear deterrence and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), plus the blind spots that limited the great Cold War civilian strategists' intellectual fertility and flexibility. Once the Soviet Union collapsed and the existential threat of nuclear holocaust abated, the American strategic community--from intelligence officers to policymakers to think tanks--lost the capacity to forecast and prepare for impending new threats to U.S. and global security. If we are to extricate America from its current strategic predicament, we must regenerate for a new age the pragmatic creativity that once distinguished its strategic brain trust."--Publisher's description.
611 27 $aWar on Terrorism (2001-2009)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01754980
611 27 $aCold War (1945-1989)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01754978
650 0 $aNuclear weapons$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aDeterrence (Strategy)
650 0 $aCold War.
650 0 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
650 7 $aOst-West-Konflikt$2gnd
650 7 $aKernwaffe$2gnd
650 7 $aAbschreckung$2gnd
650 7 $aTerrorismus$2gnd
650 7 $aBeka mpfung$2gnd
651 7 $aUSA.$2swd
650 7 $aDeterrence (Strategy)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00891658
650 7 $aNuclear weapons$xGovernment policy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01040980
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650 7 $aNuclear weapons.$2sears
650 7 $aCold war.$2sears
650 7 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001-$2sears
648 7 $a2001-2009$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007043554.html
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