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Article: Russian Strategic Modernization: Past and Future.(Review)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Russian Strategic Modernization: Past and Future By Nikolai Sokov Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 222 pages; $24.95
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, alarmist presumptions about the Soviet Union's strategic intentions spurred the United States to adopt an aggressive, militarized stance towards its Cold War rival. The U.S. public was inundated with propaganda about America's "window of vulnerability" and why the Soviets thought they could win a nuclear war. Lending plausibility to these scenarios was the belief among U.S. officials that the Soviet Union had by the end of the 1970s acquired a first-strike nuclear posture.
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