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?Martel and Savage have made the unthinkable understandable. Their
conclusions make one realize that no one really knows yet how to
cope with strategic nuclear weapons, including those who make a
career of doing just that.?-James F. Dunnigan, author of How to
Make War, Quick and Dirty Guide to War (with Austin Bay), and The
Wargames Handbook.
?Strategic Nuclear War represents a unique and welcome contribution
to the study of nuclear strategy. Based on original methodology and
careful empirical analysis this work reveals many of the most
troubling and dangerous weaknesses in U.S. nuclear planning. The
authors' dispassionate analysis bears out the most stark fear of
the twentieth century: the growing risk of nuclear war in which
there simply will be no victors.?-Senator Gary Hart,
D.-Colorado.
?This is an excellent, well-written, and dispassionate analysis of
nuclear weapons strategies by two experts in the field. The authors
examine American and Soviet strategic nuclear forces and strategies
and then, with the assistance of a computer, simulate realistic
models of a strategic war between the two. Their data are accurate
and their tables are helpful, as is the glossary. The book is well
researched and stimulating, with extensive references and
bibliography. A provocative afterword provides an interesting and
challenging war game created by the authors and first played by a
group of students at St. Anselm College. It is a timely simulation
exercise that places the players in the roles of the decision
makers. This is a book that deserves to be in university as well as
professional libraries. It will also serve as a valuable text in
graduate and advanced undergraduate courses of strategic and
national defense. The authors deserve to be congratulated on a job
well conceived and well executed.?-Choice
"Martel and Savage have made the unthinkable understandable. Their
conclusions make one realize that no one really knows yet how to
cope with strategic nuclear weapons, including those who make a
career of doing just that."-James F. Dunnigan, author of How to
Make War, Quick and Dirty Guide to War (with Austin Bay), and The
Wargames Handbook.
"Strategic Nuclear War represents a unique and welcome contribution
to the study of nuclear strategy. Based on original methodology and
careful empirical analysis this work reveals many of the most
troubling and dangerous weaknesses in U.S. nuclear planning. The
authors' dispassionate analysis bears out the most stark fear of
the twentieth century: the growing risk of nuclear war in which
there simply will be no victors."-Senator Gary Hart,
D.-Colorado.
"This is an excellent, well-written, and dispassionate analysis of
nuclear weapons strategies by two experts in the field. The authors
examine American and Soviet strategic nuclear forces and strategies
and then, with the assistance of a computer, simulate realistic
models of a strategic war between the two. Their data are accurate
and their tables are helpful, as is the glossary. The book is well
researched and stimulating, with extensive references and
bibliography. A provocative afterword provides an interesting and
challenging war game created by the authors and first played by a
group of students at St. Anselm College. It is a timely simulation
exercise that places the players in the roles of the decision
makers. This is a book that deserves to be in university as well as
professional libraries. It will also serve as a valuable text in
graduate and advanced undergraduate courses of strategic and
national defense. The authors deserve to be congratulated on a job
well conceived and well executed."-Choice
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