Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science

by Robert Ayson

An illuminating insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age.

By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the Cold War. In a demonstration that ideas can be just as significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714685445
• ISBN13: 9780714685441
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"