Bethe, Hans, 220, 344–45, 349
Bison bomber, 156–60
Blackett, P. M. S., 52–53
bomber gap, 155–61
bombers:
—air-defense system for, 322
—intercontinental, 106
—see also basing, bomber; specific bombers
bombing:
—mean area of effectiveness in, 71
—reserve force in, 46–47
—roof damage as effectiveness indicator in, 71
—target selection in, see targeting strategy
—Uniform Random Drops Model of, 241
—in World War II, 35–37, 41–43, 70–71
—see also strategy, nuclear; specific bombs
Bowie, Robert, 185
Bowles, Edward, 54, 56–61
Bradbury, Norris, 75
Bradley, William E., 343–45
Bray, Leslie, 357
Brewer, Keith, 166
Brodie, Bernard, 9–50, 72, 76, 81–82, 84, 197, 222–23, 226, 253, 390
—on A-bomb, 25–27, 30–32
—as Air Force consultant, 40, 45–49
—background of, 11–16
—change in views of, 337–40
—controlled use of nuclear weapons and, 191
—at Dartmouth, 17–18
—European defense as seen by, 337–38
—on H-bomb strategy, 79–81, 85
—Kaufmann monograph and, 193–94
—on limited war, 340
—on mutual use of nuclear weapons, 191
—nuclear strategy rejected by, 339–42
—on peaceful change, 15–16
—at Princeton, 16–17
—selective bombing proposed by, 204–5, 207
—sex-war plan connection seen by, 222–23
—on theater nuclear weapons, 340
—in U.S. Navy, 18–19
—Vietnam War and, 341
—Wohlstetter and, 338–39
—at Yale, 22–24, 186–89
—see also Absolute Weapon, The
Brown, Harold, 256, 320–21, 344–45
—on counterforce strategy, 382
—flexibility supported by, 383
—MIRV development and, 363
—on nuclear war, 385–86
Browning, Robert, 29
Bundy, McGeorge, 187, 195, 279, 325
—fallout shelters studied by, 307–10
—1961 Berlin crisis and, 296–99, 302
—Teller civil defense program and, 314
—Vietnam War escalation and, 329, 333
Bundy, William, 187, 334–35
Burchinal, David, 299
Burke, Arleigh, 234, 236
—SIOP and, 264–70
Bush, George, 388
Cabell, Charles P., 45, 49
Calkins, Robert, 128
“Can Peaceful Change Prevent War?” (Brodie), 15–16
Capehart, Homer, 248
Carney, Robert, 129
Carter, Jimmy, 380–85
—Committee on the Present Danger and, 380
—counterforce endorsed under, 385
—NSDM-242 reaffirmed by, 383–84
—nuclear war-fighting options of, 382–84
—nuclear weapons elimination advocated by, 382
—protracted nuclear war and, 383–84
Caywood, Tom,
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 157
—Air Force Intelligence dispute with, 159–60
—economic division of, 157–60
—on “Rolling Thunder” bombing campaign, 335
—Soviet missiles estimated by, 162–66, 287–89
—see also National Intelligence Estimates
Chicago, University of, 11–16
Chicago Conference on Atomic Energy Control (1945), 24–27, 50
China, People’s Republic of, 269–70, 347–49
Christian News Letter, 179
civil defense, 125–29, 145, 225, 307–14
—cost of, 225–26, 309, 314
—difficulties of, 308
—strategic value of, 225
—see also fallout shelters
Clausewitz, Karl von, 79, 191, 261
Coddington, L. C., 103
Cohen, Bernard, 50
Cohen, Sam, 74, 220–21
Collbohm, Frank, 56–63, 68, 75, 105, 114–16, 240–41
COMINT (communications intelligence), 211
Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, 179
Committee on the Present Danger, 379–80
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 15
Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy, 387
Compton, Karl, 61
Congress, U.S.:
—ABM system supported in, 346
—“Admirals’ Revolt” and, 232–33
—SAC supported in, 233
—SALT II hearings in, 381
Conner, Fox, 177
Contos, George, 258
Convair Missile Division, 112–14
Cooper, John Sherman, 355
Corbett, Percy, 29, 188
Corson, John, 128, 149–50
Council on Foreign Relations, 171, 174–75
counterforce strategy, 203–19, 260–62, 278–85
—arms race and, 244
—in ATD-751, 210–11
—as bargaining scheme, 240
—casualties from, 222, 241–43
—damage-limiting strategy as, 318–19
—deterrence and, 243–44
—as dynamic disarmament, 260
—ending of war in, 260–61
—endless weapons requirements in, 261
—MIRVs and, 363–64
—missile gap and, 289–90, 295
—1961 Berlin crisis and, 295–304
—reality and, 300–306
—systems analysis of, 208–9
—WSEG on, 259
Cousins, Norman, 28
Cowles, John, 152
Cox, Archibald, 249
Coyle, John, 234
Cragg, Ernie, 276–77
Cuban missile crisis (October, 1962), 304–6
Cutler, Robert, 127, 132, 146–47
Damage Limiting (Kent), 320–24
damage-limiting strategy, 318–26
—ABMs, counterforce, and civil defense in, 321, 324
—cost of, 322–24
—hopelessness of, 321
—military support for, 324–25
David, Donald, 61
Davison, W. Philip, 204–5
Dean, Gordon, 82
Deane, Larry, 260
Decker, George, 270
Defending a Strategic Force After 1960 (RAND), 118
Defense Department, U.S.:
—Army strength supported in, 196
—basing briefing at, 103
—Brodie’s views scorned in, 48
—damage-limiting strategy studied in, 324–25
—Directorate of Defense Research & Engineering in, 320–25
—fallout pamphlet of, 310–13
—limited war strategy in, 326–27
—Special Advisory Panel on Strategic Bombing Objectives in, 48–49
—Systems Analysis Office in, 254, 257, 320, 368
—Whiz Kids at, 254–57, 274, 317, 320
de Gaulle, Charles, 283–85, 338
DeLauer, Richard, 388
“Delicate Balance of Terror, The” (Wohlstetter), 171–73, 249, 339
deterrence:
—Assured Destruction as, 317
—basing systems and, 109
—counterforce and, 243–44
—credibility in, 191–93
—finite, 259–60
—intrawar, 223–24
—massive retaliation threat as, 175, 178–81, 191–92
—missile gap and, 169–73
—mutual, 236
—Polaris missile as, 234–36
—risk in, 190–91
—versatility needed in, 192–93
Deterrence and Strategy of Total War, 1959–61 (Marshall-Goldhamer), 213–16, 219
Deterrence and Survival in the Nuclear Age (Gaither Report), 141–42, 144–54
“Deterring Our Deterrent” (Nitze-Jones), 379
Digby, James, 207–9, 212–13
Discoverer satellite, 286–89
Doctrine of Atomic Air Warfare, 181–82