How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed - The Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video examining the basis of deterrence theory that developed in the 1950s, the bedrock of how nuclear weapons were to be used, and not used.

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SOURCES:
Bernard Brodie “The Absolute Weapon”, 1946
Bernard Brodie, “Strategy in the Missile Age”, 1959
Albert Wohlstetter and Roweena Wohlstetter, “Nuclear Heuristics: Selected writings of Albert Wohlstetter and Roweena Wohlstetter”, 2009
Marc Trachtenberg, “History and Strategy”, 1991
Alex Abella, “Soldiers of Reason”, 2008
Fred Kaplan, “Wizards of Armageddon”, 1983
Lawrence Freedman, “The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy”, 1983
Barry Zellen, “Bernard Brodie and the Bomb”, 2015