In 1974 Richard Nixon's defense secretary, James Schlesinger, announced that the United States would change its nuclear targeting policy from "assured destruction" to "limited nuclear options." In this account of the Schlesinger Doctrine based on newly declassified documents and extensive interviews with key actors, Terry Terriff challenges the Nixon administration's official explanation of why and how this policy innovation occurred.
| ISBN: | 9780801430824 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 1995 |
| Author: | Terry Terriff |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 252 pages |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs |
| Genres: |
Warfare and defence Nuclear weapons Central / national / federal government policies History of the Americas Military history |