Using the absolute weapon: Early ideas of Bernard Brodie on atomic strategy∗

This article was initially published, with minor changes, as ACIS Working Paper no. 44 by the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. It was prepared at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California.

Research on a larger study of the subject of Bernard Brodie, of which this article is part, has been supported by grants from the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at UCLA and from the Ford Foundation, and by the facilities of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Many persons, too numerous to list in full, have assisted in this project, but the writer wishes to single out for special mention Ross N. Berkes, Claude Culp, Klaus Knorr, Joseph E. Loftus, Malcolm Palmatier, William Potter and Richard Solomon for support, encouragement and criticism.

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This article was initially published, with minor changes, as ACIS Working Paper no. 44 by the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. It was prepared at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California.

Research on a larger study of the subject of Bernard Brodie, of which this article is part, has been supported by grants from the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at UCLA and from the Ford Foundation, and by the facilities of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Many persons, too numerous to list in full, have assisted in this project, but the writer wishes to single out for special mention Ross N. Berkes, Claude Culp, Klaus Knorr, Joseph E. Loftus, Malcolm Palmatier, William Potter and Richard Solomon for support, encouragement and criticism.