Historical past of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Protection: Quantity I (1945–1955)

As half of a bigger research of the strategic arms competitors which developed after World Battle II between the USA and the usS.R., this research of the 2 nations’ methods for air and ballistic missile protection addresses two broad topics: (1) How did every nation strategy the issue of protection towards the menace from the air? (2) Why did every nation accent specific components of an air protection technique at varied intervals between 1945 and 1972? The primary query considerations the implies that leaders selected for protection towards an more and more subtle offensive menace. For essentially the most half, the historical past of that sequential choice of defenses from accessible expertise and budgetary sources is a matter of evidential truth. In Chapters IV and V and several other appendices of chronologies, tables, charts, maps and notes, this quantity supplies a distillation of these info for the 1945–1955 interval. The second query, by far the tougher of the 2, considerations elite perceptions and motivations…