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Avoiding Armageddon : Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1963.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Canadian Military History SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774850360
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Avoiding ArmageddonDDC classification:
  • 355/.033071
LOC classification:
  • UA600 -- .R53 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Avoiding Armageddon -- Introduction -- 1 The Defence and Security Environment, 1945- 9 -- 2 Canada's Air Defence Debate -- 3 Canadian Views on Nuclear Weapons and Related Issues of Strategy -- 4 The Canadian Debate on the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons -- 5 Canadian Conceptual Understanding of Arms Control -- 6 Links between Canadian Strategic Thinking and Defence Policy, 1950- 63 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: An examination of Canadian military thinking on key issues of the nuclear age, such as deterrence, arms control, strategic stability, air defence, and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Avoiding Armageddon -- Introduction -- 1 The Defence and Security Environment, 1945- 9 -- 2 Canada's Air Defence Debate -- 3 Canadian Views on Nuclear Weapons and Related Issues of Strategy -- 4 The Canadian Debate on the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons -- 5 Canadian Conceptual Understanding of Arms Control -- 6 Links between Canadian Strategic Thinking and Defence Policy, 1950- 63 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

An examination of Canadian military thinking on key issues of the nuclear age, such as deterrence, arms control, strategic stability, air defence, and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons.

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