Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security
β Scribed by Scott Douglas Sagan
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 255
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In what Stanley Hoffmann, writing in The New York Review of Books, has called a "fine analysis and critique of American targeting policies," Sagan looks more at the operational side of nuclear strategy than previous analysts have done, seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
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