Strategic Command and Control: Redefining the Nuclear Threat

by Bruce G. Blair

Book Overview

During the past twenty-five years, U.S. strategists have argued that avoiding nuclear war depends on deterring a Soviet first strike by ensuring that U.S. forces could survive a surprise attack in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081570982X
• ISBN13: 9780815709824
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

now a part of history

The world has changed considerably since this book came out 20 years ago. And today's command and control technolgy and the military force that it directs is quite different. But Blair's book represents a detailed snapshot of command and control solutions in 1985 and the considerations that led to them. A simple but typical example is how the Soviet introduction of SLBMs impacted the planning for a survivable National Command Authority. The cold war is over and this book as a contemporary overview is obsolete. So are the situations and technologies it describes. But its value to history is obvious and undimished by time.