Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy

by Richard H. Immerman and Robert R. Bowie

Book Overview

Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent and sustainable strategy for addressing the issues unique to the nuclear age. To this end, he designated a decision-making...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195062647
• ISBN13: 9780195062649
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"