Hegemony and Culture in the Origins of NATO Nuclear First Use, 1945-1955

by Andrew Johnston and Andrew M. Johnston

Book Overview

Johnston argues that the preemptive first-use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural 'socialization', by which the United States reconstituted the previously nationalist strategic cultures of the European allies into a seamless western community directed by Washington. Building a bridge between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403970246
• ISBN13: 9781403970244
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.6"