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.

• 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"