| Samenvatting: | "A comprehensive and illuminating account of America's paralyzing infatuation with nuclear weapons. This expanded edition of Scott Ritter's 2010 book drives home the point made in the original: The ominous threat of Doomsday persists, with U.S. policymakers unable to extricate themselves from the reckless pact with the devil made by their predecessors more than a half-century ago."
Andrew Bacevich - President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
"In this urgently timely updating of his 2010 critique of US nuclear disarmament policy, Scott Ritter drives home America's addiction to nuclear weapons and to an insane predilection for preemptive attack. From his titular allusion to Oppenheimer's "two scorpions in a bottle", to his closing discussion of a U.S. nuclear war game using a low yield warhead to target Russian troops while NATO carries out its biggest military exercise in years om Russia's border, Ritter provides a compelling narrative depicting the suicidal mania that is American nuclear weapons policy. Scorpion King is must reading for all those who should be concerned about the danger of our nuclear weapons policies. That's everyone."
Daniel Ellsberg - Author, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Cold War Planner. |
| Trefwoorden: | nuclear weapons, USA, ABM Treaty, Leonid Brezhnev, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, China, Dohrynin Anatoliy, General D. Eisenhower, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lyndon B.Johnson, Henry Kissinger, Dimitry Medvedev, Richard Nixon, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Russia, Soviet Union, Treaty of the Elemination of Intermediate Range and Shorter Range, ACDA, Vietnam, Cold War, Doomsday, |