The Origins of Overkill
Nuclear Weapons and American Strategy, 1945-1960
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11262034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Rosenberg (0000-0002-0005-4151, corresponding author), David Alan Rosenberg |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2889 • E-ISSN: 1531-4804 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2626731 |
| OpenAlex | W2079251522 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
| References cited | 12 |
Nuclear weapon · Political science · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
The Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation
The Atlas and the Air Force
The End of Ends
The Direction of War
The contribution of strategic studies
Security and International Relations
Schelling, von Neumann, and the Event that Didn’t Occur
The practice of deterrence
The Search for a Science of Strategy
Preemption and the Evolution of America’s Strategic Defense
The Age of Fallout
North Korean Nuclear Learning Under the Essentials of Nuclear Revolution
Long Peace” and Nuclear Weapons
Civil religion and the arms race
The Nixon Administration, the “Horror Strategy,” and the Search for Limited Nuclear Options, 1969–1972
Targeting China
Eisenhower and the Berlin Problem, 1953–1954
Japanese Scientists’ Critique of Nuclear Deterrence Theory and Its Influence on Pugwash, 1954–1964
The Submarine in Naval Warfare, 1901-2001
Nuclear Coercion and the Ending of the Korean Conflict
Choosing Targets for Nuclear Weapons
The Long Peace
"A "Wasting Asset
American strategic culture
Handling the Soviet threat
The not‐quite‐absolute weapon
Curtis LeMay and the origins of Nato atomic targeting
Deterrence theory
War‐fighting for deterrence
Expanding the Data Base
Domestic Structure and Preventive War
Nuclear strategy and the problem of command and control
The influence of analysis on U.S. defense policys
Nuclear deterrence
The Peculiar Politics of Missile Defense
The Renaissance of Security Studies
The Emerging Fourth Wave of Deterrence Theory-Toward a New Research Agenda
The Crisis in Crisis
The Recognition Game
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb
Commentary
War for Peace
The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War
The secret battalion’
A hegemonic nuclear order
Blowback
Ike's hair‐trigger
The war that never happened
Cooperation and suspicion
Studying American grand strategy; facets in an ‘exceptionalist tradition’
A higher priority than the Korean War!’
The Carter Administration and the Evolution of American Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1977–1981
Opening the Closed World of the Cold War and American Nuclear Strategy
Keys to a Unified Theory of Warfare and Arms Races
The Means to Match Their Hatred”
The Shaping of Nuclear Weapon System Technology
A Dying Creed
Asymmetric Proliferation and Nuclear War
Nuclear Deterrence and International Law
Siop-62
Stigmatizing the Bomb
Strategic Make-Believe and Strategic Reality
A Defensible Defense
Beyond START
Why the U.S. Navy went for Hard-Target Counterforce in Trident II
Windows of Opportunity
The Perils of Proliferation
The Machines of War
Grand strategy in a post-bipolar world
The contingent taboo
Nuclear strategy in the Nordic region
Grasping the Technological Peace
International Security at Twenty-five
Two Concepts of Liberty
The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy
The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Proliferation
Strategies of Inhibition
Nuclear strategy
The rules of civilized warfare’
The dilemma of a ‘trigger happy’ protégé – Israel, France and President Carter’s Iraq policy
Using the absolute weapon
Posturing for great power competition
Strategic bombers over the missile horizon, 1957–1963
Stalking the Secure Second Strike
Counter proliferation, conventional counterforce and Nuclear War
Maintaining the ‘Moscow Criterion’
Re-examining the introduction of 280 mm Cannons and Honest John Rockets into Korea, January 1958
Deadly or Impotent? Nuclear Command and Control in Pakistan
Clean’ bombs
Strategic theory
Military nuclear relations between the United States and Great Britain under the terms of the McMahon Act, 1946–1958
Deterrence Theory Discussion
Taking the Bishops Seriously
Social Scientific Analysis of Nuclear Weapons
Terror without Deterrence
Proliferation, Deterrence, and the Likelihood of Nuclear War
Politics does not stop at the ‘nuclear edge
Issue-area and foreign policy revisited
The Nuclear Taboo
Smoking Radiating Ruin at the End of Two Hours
Research Note
President Eisenhower and Strategy Management
The Quest for Security
Developing the ICBM
American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision
U.S. Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat
A Scientist at the White House
The CIA's Secret Operations
The Chiefs of Naval Operations
The Origins of Massive Retaliation
| Unique citing works | 109 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,53 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 105 |