{"product_id":"avoiding-armageddon-andrew-richter-9780870136573","title":"Avoiding Armageddon: Canadian Military Strategy and Nuclear Weapons 1950-63","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe advent of nuclear weapons in the 1940s brought enormous changes to doctrines regarding the use of force in resolving disputes. American strategists have been widely credited with most of these; Canadians, most have assumed, did not conduct their own strategic analysis. \u003ci\u003eAvoiding Armageddon\u003c\/i\u003e soundly debunks this notion.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on previously classified government records, Richter reveals that Canadian defense officials did come to independent strategic understandings of the most critical issues of the nuclear age. Canadian appreciation of deterrence, arms control, and strategic stability differed conceptually from the U.S. models. Similarly, Canadian thinking on the controversial issues of air defense and the domestic acquisition of nuclear weapons was primarily influenced by decidedly Canadian interests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Avoiding Armageddon\u003c\/i\u003e is a work with far-reaching implications. It illustrates Canada's considerable latitude for independent defense thinking while providing key historical information that helps make sense of the contemporary Canadian defense debate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Richter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870136577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870136573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michigan State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.02w x 0.65d","brand":"Andrew Richter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078124925183,"sku":"9780870136573","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48e03d44-3e98-4a28-a3cf-bd731ab80c06.jpg?v=1685473680","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/avoiding-armageddon-andrew-richter-9780870136573","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}