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United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968

The Bomb, Spies, Stories, and Lies
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 2020

Summary

Between 1945 and 1968, the possibility of Mutual Assured Destruction led to a host of odd realities, including the creation of an affable cartoon turtle named Bert who taught millions of school children that nuclear war was survivable if they simply learned how to “duck and cover.” Meanwhile, fear of Communism played out against the backdrop of potential Armageddon to provide justification for a variety of covert operations involving regime change, political assassination, and sometimes bizarre plot twists. United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968: The Bomb, Spies, Stories, and Lies takes a fresh look at this complex, often confusing, and frequently farcical period in American and world history.

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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0217-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0218-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
344
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Preface No access
    3. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Chapter I The Unsatisfying Nature of Satisficing No access Pages 1 - 16
    1. Chapter II Endings and Beginnings No access
    2. Chapter III Competing Challenges in an Uncertain World No access
    3. Chapter IV Enemies From Within and From Without No access
    1. Chapter V One Step Forward, One Step Back No access
    2. Chapter VI Caught in the Middle No access
    3. Chapter VII Things Are Seldom What They Seem No access
    1. Chapter VIII Persisting Problems on the New Frontier No access
    2. Chapter IX Assumptions versus Realities No access
    3. Chapter X To the Edge of Armageddon and Back Again No access
    4. Chapter XI Down the Rabbit Hole No access
    5. Chapter XII Hot Spots beyond Vietnam No access
    6. Chapter XIII Rationalizing Away Qualms No access
    7. Chapter XIV A Matter of Sovereignty No access
    8. Chapter XV Looking Back across Twenty-Three Years No access
  2. Bibliography No access Pages 315 - 332
  3. Index No access Pages 333 - 342
  4. About the Author No access Pages 343 - 344

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