%0 Book %A Prof. Ron Hirschbein %D 2021 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %T Newest Weapons / Oldest Psychology %B The Dialectics of American Nuclear Strategy %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1131519 %X 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. %G English