Newest Weapons / Oldest Psychology
The Dialectics of American Nuclear Strategy
©1989
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278 Pages
Series:
Conflict and Consciousness , Volume 1
Summary
The author contends that the men who possess the newest weapons are possessed by the oldest psychology - group psychology. This ancient, irresistible force shapes and colors American strategy. However the strategic decision-makers' collective mentality cannot be reduced to a seamless whole because it is the product of opposing forces: rational, bureaucratic imperatives designed to assure the continuity of the Nuclear Elite; and irrational, technological messianism informed by visions of an American millennium.
Details
- Pages
- 278
- Publication Year
- 1989
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820410746
- Language
- English
- Published
- New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1989. 278 pp.
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