<p>The North Atlantic Treaty Organization turned 50 years old in April of 1999. With the expansion of membership to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the Alliance undertook increased security commitments and affirmed a new post-Cold War role for itself. Despite the US Senate's overwhelming endorsement of this expansion, however, many prominent contributing authors point out that hard questions about the Alliance's scope, mission, size and cost remain, regrettably, unanswered. This book considers a variety of viewpoints, all of which help one to reflect on the feasibility and advisability of a global role for NATO, and to assess the problems ahead for bringing peace, stability and unity to the European continent.</p>

NATO at FIFTY: Perspectives on the Future of the Transatlantic Alliance

Perry, William

Eisenhower, Susan

Garthoff, Raymond

BRZEZINSKI, ZBIGNIEW

DEAN, Jonathan

Carpenter, Ted Galen

Davies, Richard

Kay, Sean

Nash, William

Carter, Ashton

Goldgeier, James

Braithwaite, Sir Rodric

Simes, Dmitri

Saunders, Paul

Rosner, Jeremy

Rodman, Peter

Beach, Sir High

Calleo, David

Daalder, Ivo

de Rose, Francois

Dobrainsky, Paula

Doorey, Timothy

Driscoll, Hilary

Ellsworth, Robert

Erler, Gernot

Frye, Alton

Goodpaster, Andrew

Herspring, Dale

Kober, Stanley

Korb, Larry

Heisbourg, FranÇois

Dame Pauline

Neville-Jones

The Eisenhower Institute

Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation

History

Americas

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In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation and considers what this has done to the world.There are few villains in this story: on both sides of the Iron Curtain, dedicated scientists cracked the secrets of nature, dutiful military men planned out possible manoeuvres and politicians wrestled with potentially intolerable decisions. Patriotic citizens acquiesced to the idea that their country needed the ultimate means of defence. Some tried to grapple with the unanswerable question: what end could possibly be served by such fearsome means? Those who protested went unheard. None of them wanted to start a nuclear war, but all of them were paranoid about what the other side might do. The danger of annihilation by accident or misjudgement has not been entirely absent since.Rodric Braithwaite, author of bestsellers Moscow 1941 and Afgantsy, paints a vivid and detailed portrait of this intense period in history. Its implications are terrifyingly relevant today, as ignorant and thoughtless talk about nuclear war begins to spread once more.

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