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• W218549508 abstract "Stockpile: The Story Behind 10,000 Strategic Nuclear Weapons by Jerry Miller Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010 273 pages $37.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is in part a history of why the American (and Soviet) nuclear weapons stockpiles grew so spectacularly large, presented by someone who was a first-hand observer and participant in many of the crucial choices on strategy and targeting. As an eyewitness account of the decisions and of the decisionmakers, this book will be indispensible for anyone doing advanced research on the subject. Clearly written (if somewhat repetitious in places) with a view to making the physical choices clear for someone untrained in physics, it might also serve as a very useful text for undergraduate courses or graduate seminars in national security. As with any eyewitness reconstruction of a memoir, there are points where some reader caution may be in order, as the author's opinions on the character of the people involved, and on the big issues at stake, come through sometimes with a bit of an opinionated tone. And memory can fail anyone four or five decades later, on the complete logic of the strategic decisions made, and on the paths that were chosen or not chosen. The author spent an important portion of his career with the United States Navy's team in Omaha making inputs to the Single Integrated Operational Plan for waging nuclear war, and he has interacted with a wide variety of civilian arms control and strategic research centers since his retirement. He can thus in no way be typecast as a simple retired admiral, for he is very attuned to the criticisms that civilians have made of the nuclear arms race. While some of his prose indeed betrays the normal biases of a military professional about civilian academics who have never been in uniform or in combat, he at the same time endorses the normal outsider's criticism that the nuclear arsenal was allowed to grow much too large. The depictions of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and some of his major assistants, for example Alain Enthoven, reinforce the standard picture of excessively self-assured civilian academics. The fact is noted several times that the American arsenal grew the most in the McNamara years. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson is also depicted somewhat negatively, while Paul Nitze and Andrew Goodpaster are given a much more positive image, and President Eisenhower is also seen this way. Showing some of the possible pitfalls in memory, and a perhaps incomplete synthesis of all the strategic factors involved, the author portrays Eisenhower as someone who had decided never to initiate the use of nuclear weapons. Admiral Miller also details the extent to which Eisenhower chose to rely on extended nuclear deterrence, with the threat of escalation, for the protection of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), rather than choosing a costly erection of conventional defenses to counter the forces of the Warsaw Pact. …" @default.
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