TY  - GEN
T1  - The fallacies of Cold War deterrence and a new direction
A1  - Payne, Keith B.
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900344332
AB  - In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamberlain's policy was doomed because he had greatly misjudged Hitler's basic beliefs and thus his behavior. U.S. Cold War nuclear deterrence policy was similarly based on the confident but questionable assumption that Soviet leaders would be rational by Washington's standards; they would behave reasonably wh.
OP  - 240
CN  - U162.6 .P39 2001
SN  - 9780813148496
SN  - 0813148499
SN  - 0813127750
SN  - 9780813127750
SN  - 9780813190150
SN  - 0813122074
SN  - 9780813122076
SN  - 0813190150
KW  - Deterrence (Strategy)
KW  - United States : Military policy.
KW  - Nuclear weapons : United States.
KW  - Cold War.
KW  - Deterrence (Strategy) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Dissuasion (Stratégie)
KW  - Guerre froide.
KW  - Dissuasion (Stratégie) : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : Other.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Military Science.
KW  - HISTORY : Modern : 20th Century.
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - United States
KW  - Abschreckung
KW  - Atomstrategie
KW  - Ost-West-Konflikt
KW  - USA
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -