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The Politics of Threat

Minuteman Vulnerability in American National Security Policy

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. David H. Dunn

    1. Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

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Part of the book series: Southampton Studies in International Policy (SSIP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 1-5

  4. ICBM Vulnerability in The Carter Administration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Carter, His Critics and the Politicisation of the Issue

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 83-90

    3. Carter, the MX and the Window of Vulnerability: The Political Context

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 91-123

  5. ICBM Vulnerability in the Reagan Administration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. The Window of Vulnerability, Strategic Modernisation and the Townes Committee

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 127-138

    3. Reaction to the Townes Committee Report

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 139-160

    4. The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 161-187

    5. Reactions to the Commission’s Recommendations

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 188-210

    6. Conclusions

      • David H. Dunn
      Pages 211-221

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 222-289
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This work analyses the vulnerability of America's land-based missile force to a pre-emptive Soviet strike as an issue in US strategic and political debate. It examines why the issue rose to prominence in the way it did in the 1970s and then fell away as a concern in the 1980s without being solved in the way it had been presented. It details the way in which the issue was exploited for political and strategic purposes which were often at odds with a concern for this vulnerability.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

    David H. Dunn

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