Superweapons in Science Fiction and Reality

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Works cited:

For an example of what salami tactics are and how things could play out, see this clip from Yes, Prime Minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxbFk4viTSQ

Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence. Revised ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) Free edition on JSTOR here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm52s

Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013)

Francis J. Gavin, Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012)

If you’re interested in learning more about the different schools of deterrence theory, check out Charles Glaser, Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), especially chapter 2. Free edition on JSTOR here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvvxj

For an overview of the history of nuclear thought (but one that deserves to be read with caution and compared to Gavin’s work) check out Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon. Reissued ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991)

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