?A primer on nuclear armtwisting. On Escalation is not designed to
shock but to instruct--to show how we can use our atomic weapons
and still, perhaps, come out alive.... Kahn constructs an
escalation ladder by which nations can work their way up a series
of forty-four graduated rungs from ordinary cold war unpleasantness
to all out nuclear oblivion. With the aid of analogies from history
and hypothetical confrontations at various points along the ladder,
Kahn demonstrates some of the options that are open in the game of
chickenmanship.?-New York Review of Books
"A primer on nuclear armtwisting. On Escalation is not designed to
shock but to instruct--to show how we can use our atomic weapons
and still, perhaps, come out alive.... Kahn constructs an
escalation ladder by which nations can work their way up a series
of forty-four graduated rungs from ordinary cold war unpleasantness
to all out nuclear oblivion. With the aid of analogies from history
and hypothetical confrontations at various points along the ladder,
Kahn demonstrates some of the options that are open in the game of
chickenmanship."-New York Review of Books
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