Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Origins of Nuclear Air Defense Arms; Chapter 2 Robert Sprague's "Adequate Defense"; Chapter 3 Testing, Predelegating, and Announcing; Chapter 4 Genie; Chapter 5 Nike-Hercules; Chapter 6 BOMARC and Falcon; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This book traces the Eisenhower administration's enthusiastic pursuit of the profoundly destabilizing technology of nuclear weapons, and its significance for the course of the Cold War
