First Strike!

The Pentagon's Strategy for Nuclear War

• Author(s): Robert C. Aldridge,
• Publisher: South End Press
• Pages: 325
• ISBN_10: 0896081559
  ISBN_13: 9780896081550
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / General , History / Military / Nuclear Warfare , History / United States / 20th Century , Political Science / International Relations / Arms Control , Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations ,

Description:... A former design engineer for Lockheed presents a comprehensive survey of U.S. and Soviet nuclear forces and strategic doctrines that exposes the U.S. military's dangerous bid for first strike capability and describes corporate imperatives for perpetuating the arms race and circumventing arms control.