2. U.S. Nuclear War Planning, 1945-1960

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Glossary 11
5. PART I. Introduction
6. 1. Toward a Critique of Strategic Nuclear Targeting 15
7. PART II. Targeting Policies and Plans
8. 2. U.S. Nuclear War Planning, 1945-1960 35
9. 3. The Development of the SIOP, 1960-1983 57
10. 4. Soviet Nuclear Targeting Strategy 84
11. 5. British Nuclear Targeting 109
12. 6. French Nuclear Targeting 127
13. PART III. Issues in Strategic Nuclear Targeting
14. 7. The Dilemmas of Counterpower Targeting 159
15. 8. Targeting Problems for Central War 171
16. 9. On Keeping Them Down; or, Why Do Recovery Models Recover So Fast? 194
17. 10. Exemplary Industrial Targets for Controlled Conflict 209
18. 11. Population Targeting and U.S. Strategic Doctrine 234
19. 12. Targeting Nuclear Energy 250
20. 13. Ethnic Targeting: Some Bad Ideas 267
21. 14. War Termination and Nuclear Targeting Strategy 285
22. Contributors 307
23. Notes 313
24. Bibliography 349
25. Index 359