Benjamin P Greene
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin P Greene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Greene |
| SIGNATURE | GREENE B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assured Destruction
Journal Article Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force Get access Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force. By David Bath. (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2020. xiv, 238 pp. $39.95.) Benjamin P Greene Benjamin P Greene Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…
The Double Game
Spanning three presidencies, from 1961 to 1972, James Cameron's important study meticulously untangles a diverse array of factors and actors to reveal how each administration played a “double game,” advancing a confident public position on the nation's strategic posture that was increasingly at odds with private anxieties. While the standard narrative explains the double game as the outcome of a new formulation of the nuclear-strategic calculus, …
Camelot and Canada
Asa McKercher's exemplary study of Canadian-American relations explores several particularly timely themes: the rising hopes emerging from the election of a young, charismatic leader; the influence of a foreign power on the outcome of a national election; and a campaign's politically motivated stoking of a nationalism that questioned commitments to security alliances and severely strained bilateral relations. These and other topics of contemporar…
Captive of a Scientific‐Technological Elite”
This analysis of Dwight D. Eisenhower's pursuit of a nuclear test‐ban agreement assesses the role of science advice in his decision making. It argues that a “scientific‐technological elite” within the administration monopolized the technical conclusions in policy questions, inhibiting the president's inclination to pursue an accord with the Soviet Union for the first half of his presidency. This episode has important implications for understandin…
Eisenhower, science and the nuclear test Ban Debate 1953–56
Though historians debate whether Eisenhower seriously pursued a nuclear test ban agreement at the close of his presidency, few have closely examined his consideration of the issue during his first term in office. Publicly, his administration ridiculed Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson's highly publicized test ban proposal in 1956. In fact, Eisenhower's private inclination to ban testing antedated Stevenson's campaign proposal b…
The Double Game
Spanning three presidencies, from 1961 to 1972, James Cameron's important study meticulously untangles a diverse array of factors and actors to reveal how each administration played a “double game,” advancing a confident public position on the nation's strategic posture that was increasingly at odds with private anxieties. While the standard narrative explains the double game as the outcome of a new formulation of the nuclear-strategic calculus, …
Eisenhower, science and the nuclear test Ban Debate 1953–56
Though historians debate whether Eisenhower seriously pursued a nuclear test ban agreement at the close of his presidency, few have closely examined his consideration of the issue during his first term in office. Publicly, his administration ridiculed Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson's highly publicized test ban proposal in 1956. In fact, Eisenhower's private inclination to ban testing antedated Stevenson's campaign proposal b…
Captive of a Scientific‐Technological Elite”
This analysis of Dwight D. Eisenhower's pursuit of a nuclear test‐ban agreement assesses the role of science advice in his decision making. It argues that a “scientific‐technological elite” within the administration monopolized the technical conclusions in policy questions, inhibiting the president's inclination to pursue an accord with the Soviet Union for the first half of his presidency. This episode has important implications for understandin…
Camelot and Canada
Asa McKercher's exemplary study of Canadian-American relations explores several particularly timely themes: the rising hopes emerging from the election of a young, charismatic leader; the influence of a foreign power on the outcome of a national election; and a campaign's politically motivated stoking of a nationalism that questioned commitments to security alliances and severely strained bilateral relations. These and other topics of contemporar…
The Double Game
Spanning three presidencies, from 1961 to 1972, James Cameron's important study meticulously untangles a diverse array of factors and actors to reveal how each administration played a “double game,” advancing a confident public position on the nation's strategic posture that was increasingly at odds with private anxieties. While the standard narrative explains the double game as the outcome of a new formulation of the nuclear-strategic calculus, …
Assured Destruction
Journal Article Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force Get access Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force. By David Bath. (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2020. xiv, 238 pp. $39.95.) Benjamin P Greene Benjamin P Greene Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Ame…
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