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War Today – Conflict and Confrontation Between the Superpowers
Marshall Cavendish
Marshall Cavendish Books Limited 1985. Hård pärm A4 format 258 sidor. Mycket gott skick.
ISBN0863074359
Behind the closely guarded perimeter fences of remote missile sites; behind closed doors in London, Washington and Moscow, the realities of war today are the worlds best kept secrets. War Today is a unique attempt to unlock those doors and bring together, in a single volume, the facts behind today’s escalating arms race.
The world, we all know, is capable of destroying itself several times over. But the fill extent of the awesome arsenal at the disposal of the two superpowers is often underestimated — as is the frightening price that is paid for maintaining them. War Today catalogues the whole grisly inventory, from the most sophisticated. Up-to-date nuclear missile to the ordinary hand-gun used by the poor bloody infantryman in the field.
From a full appraisal of the forces of the world’s two competing armed camps — NATO and the Warsaw Pact — War Today potential trouble spots that clutter the world and could only too easily spark off Armageddon.
When the fateful moment came to push the final button — if it came - what would be the consequences? War Today analyses the power structures, military and civilian, to show how East and West would wage war on each other: what their objectives would be and how they would attempt to gain them.
In the corridors of power in Washington and Moscow the unthinkable is being planned and refined down to the last detail. Understandably, the deployment of Pershing-2, Cruise and the Soviet SS-20 has made Europeans particularly aware of their vulnerability. But known only to a few, there lies dormant on Europe’s soil vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons whose use opens up even greater vistas of horror — and which the experts say would unhesitatingly be used in the event of war.
But beyond the potential horror lies reality of 40 years of Europe — a peace many believe guaranteed by the existence of such terrifying weapons of destruction. War Today looks at the arguments for and against nuclear weapons coolly and objectively and in the final section puts forward the idea that peace can only be maintained by a proper understanding of war.
Marshall Cavendish
Marshall Cavendish Books Limited 1985. Hård pärm A4 format 258 sidor. Mycket gott skick.
ISBN0863074359
Behind the closely guarded perimeter fences of remote missile sites; behind closed doors in London, Washington and Moscow, the realities of war today are the worlds best kept secrets. War Today is a unique attempt to unlock those doors and bring together, in a single volume, the facts behind today’s escalating arms race.
The world, we all know, is capable of destroying itself several times over. But the fill extent of the awesome arsenal at the disposal of the two superpowers is often underestimated — as is the frightening price that is paid for maintaining them. War Today catalogues the whole grisly inventory, from the most sophisticated. Up-to-date nuclear missile to the ordinary hand-gun used by the poor bloody infantryman in the field.
From a full appraisal of the forces of the world’s two competing armed camps — NATO and the Warsaw Pact — War Today potential trouble spots that clutter the world and could only too easily spark off Armageddon.
When the fateful moment came to push the final button — if it came - what would be the consequences? War Today analyses the power structures, military and civilian, to show how East and West would wage war on each other: what their objectives would be and how they would attempt to gain them.
In the corridors of power in Washington and Moscow the unthinkable is being planned and refined down to the last detail. Understandably, the deployment of Pershing-2, Cruise and the Soviet SS-20 has made Europeans particularly aware of their vulnerability. But known only to a few, there lies dormant on Europe’s soil vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons whose use opens up even greater vistas of horror — and which the experts say would unhesitatingly be used in the event of war.
But beyond the potential horror lies reality of 40 years of Europe — a peace many believe guaranteed by the existence of such terrifying weapons of destruction. War Today looks at the arguments for and against nuclear weapons coolly and objectively and in the final section puts forward the idea that peace can only be maintained by a proper understanding of war.
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