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The Wizards of Armageddon: Strategists of the Nuclear Age, by Fred Kaplan

- Abstract

This account of the evolution of American strategic thought in the nuclear age begins in a promising fashion, with the first attempts to understand how the atomic bomb could be used, or rather kept unused, to keep the peace.



About the Author

Edward N. Luttwak is senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.