《THE BALANCE OF TERROR NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE ILLUSION OF SECURITY 1945-1985》

I. EARLY YEARS OF THE ARMS RACE (1945--1952)1

Postwar Disarmament1

The B-36 and the H-Bomb6

Korea and National Security Paper #6814

II. THE EISENHOWER YEARS: MASSIVE RETALIATION AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY (1953--1957)18

Massive Retaliation18

Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO25

Collective Security31

The Bomber Gap35

III. THE MISSILE GAP: A STUDY IN MYTH CREATION (1957--1961)39

Soviet Strategy, American Intelligence, and the Missile Gap41

Budgetary, Partisan, and Military Effects of the Missile Gap58

The Impact of the Missile Gap Abroad69

IV. THE KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION: FLEXIBLE RESPONSE AND SECOND-STRIKE COUNTERFORCE (1961--1963)74

Flexible Response77

Second-Strike Counterforce80

Vietnam, Berlin, and Cuba86

The Test Ban Treaty96

NATO97

V. JOHNSON-NIXON: LOGIC FULFILLED (1963--1970)111

American Strategic Superiority116

Soviet Attitudes123

ABM and MIRV125

The Soviet Reaction131

Nixon and Laird133

VI. THE 1970s: TURBULENCE IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY147

Vietnam: The Failure of American Foreign Policy148

SALT I: The Illusion of Arms Control155

The Committee on the Present Danger and the Trilateralists159

Carter and the Balance of Terror-1977164

NATO: "First Use" and Nuclear "Coupling"168

The Year of Decision-1979177

The Carter Doctrine and Presidential Directive #59183

VII. RONALD REAGAN: MYTH AND REALITY IN THE NUCLEAR AGE191

U.S. and USSR Strategic Force Levels-1982195

The Arms Race: Escalating or Arms Control?200

The Window of Vulnerability202

The Spending Gap204

The Strategic Defense Initiative208

Nuclear Winter: Controlling the Doomsday Machine213

Common Control, Communications, and Intelligence C3I216

Euromissiles: Nuclear Weapons and NATO219

Decoupling Europe: A Diplomatic Solution226

The Deadly Connection229

Conclusion232

VIII. EPILOGUE235

Glossary243

Notes255

Index283