Forbidden Wars: The Unwritten Rules that Keep Us Safe

by Theodore Caplow

Forbidden Wars proposes to explain why no nuclear weapon has been fired in anger since 1945, why no nuclear weapon has ever been detonated by accident, why terrorists have made no serious attempt to acquire nuclear weapons, and why the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union never broke out into a real war. All of these remarkable non-events flow from a set of unwritten but compelling rules for war-making that appeared spontaneously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761836705
• ISBN13: 9780761836704
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"