Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies

Matthew Evangelista

Published by Cornell University Press 1989

Innovation and the Arms Race

How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies

Matthew Evangelista

In the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734304

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Innovation and the Arms Race offers a new account of the causes and mechanisms of the "technological arms racebetween the Soviet Union and the United States—the competitive development of major weapons innovations.

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EvangelistaMatthew:

Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including Unarmed Forces, also from Cornell, and Gender, Nationalism, and War.

Reviews

Jack Snyder, Columbia University:

"A significant contribution to the literature on national security policymaking in general and to the understanding of Soviet nuclear arms policy in particular. The work has the two-fold strength of presenting new factual information and new interpretations of important historical events and placing in a sensible and original comparative framework that accounts for patterns of U.S. and Soviet military innovations in a theoretically sophisticated way. The former makes this study solid and credible; the latter makes it virtually unique in its field."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Part I. Technology and the Arms Race
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1. Theory and Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2. Sources of Innovation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3. Weapons Innovation: U.S./USSR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Part II. From Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Star Wars
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4. The Origins of U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
5. The Origins of Soviet Tactical Nuclear Weapons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
6. Explaining the Technological Arms Race Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
7. The Arms Race and the Academy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: foreign policy; superpower arms competition; arms race; international security affairs; scientist memoirs; declassified intelligence analyses; Nikita Khruschev

eBook

Published: June 30, 2019
ISBN: 9781501734304