NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000

This book provides brief histories of the nuclear strategies of NATO as a whole and of Britain and France, as well as the defense preference of the FRG (West Germany) from the beginning of the Cold War. Comparative analyses of these strategies show that once America was vulnerable to Soviet nuclear reprisals, American strategic preferences differed fundamentally from those of the Europeans. 276 pp.