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

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  • Brodie , Bernard . 1946 . “ ‘Implications for Military Policy’ ” . In The Absolute Weapon: Atomic Power and World Order , Edited by: Brodie , Bernard . 76 New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co. .
  • Brodie . “ ‘War in the Atomic Age’ ” . In The Absolute Weapon 29
  • Blackett , P. M. S. 1948 . Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy , 56 London : Turnstile Press .
  • Viner , Jacob . 1946 . “ ‘The Implications of the Atomic Bomb for International Relations’ ” . In Symposium on Atomic Energy and Its Implications , 53 – 8 . Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society .
  • Kaplan . 1983 . The Wizards of Armageddon , 47 New York : Simon & Schuster .
  • Brodie . “ ‘Implications for Military Policy’ ” . 80
  • Brodie , Bernard . 1959 . Strategy in the Missile Age , 98 Princeton : Princeton University Press .
  • Woodward , Ernest L. 1945 . Some Political Consequences of the Atomic Bomb , 9 London : Oxford University Press .
  • 1939 . Bombs Bursting in Air New York
  • George , Alexander and Smoke , Richard . 1974 . Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice , New York : Columbia University Press .
  • Brodie . “ ‘Implications for Military Policy’ ” . 88
  • Brodie , Bernard . 1950 . ‘The Problem of Integrating the Factors of National Strategy’ . Air War College Lecture , 17 March : 2
  • 1949 . ‘Strategic Implications of the North Atlantic Pact’ . The Yale Review , 39 Dec. : 203 – 4 .
  • Brodie , Bernard , ed. 1973 . War and Politics , 40 – 42 . New York : Macmillan .
  • Gaddis . 1982 . Strategies of Containment , 4 – 9 . New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Hinsley , F. H. 1951 . Hitler's Strategy , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • ‘modern war means total war’ . Strategy in the Missile Age , 307
  • Earle , Edward Mead . 1943 . Makers of Modern Strategy , Princeton : Princeton University Press .
  • Brodie , Bernard . 1949 . ‘Sea Power in the Atomic Age’ . Naval War College Lecture , 19 January : 7
  • Brodie , Bernard . 1948 . ‘The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker’ . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 4 Dec. : 380
  • Fox , William T. R. 1944 . The Super Powers , 102 – 3 . 106 New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co. .
  • Howard , Michael . 1981 . The Franco‐Prussian War , 36 New York : Macmillan .
  • Brodie , Bernard . 1949 . ‘Strategy as a Science’ . World Politics , I July : 485f
  • Brodie . Strategy in the Missile Age , 6
  • 1955 . ‘Some Notes on the Evolution of Air Doctrine’ . World Politics , 7 April : 365
  • Brodie . The Atomic Bomb and American Security 2f
  • Rosenberg , David . 1983 . ‘The Origins of Overkill: Nuclear Weapons and American Strategy, 1945–1960’ . International Security , 7 Spring : 7
  • Brodie . “ ‘A‐Bombs and Air Strategy’ ” . 6
  • Brodie . “ ‘A‐Bombs and Air Strategy’ ” . 15 – 16 .
  • Brodie . “ ‘Implications for Military Policy’ ” . 94 – 5 .
  • Brodie . “ ‘War in the Atomic Age’ ” . 58 – 9 .
  • Brodie . “ ‘War in the Atomic Age’ ” . 59
  • Brodie . “ ‘The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker’ ” . 381
  • Rosenberg . “ ‘The Origins of Overkill’ ” . 14
  • Brennan , Donald G. , ed. 1961 . “ ‘The Arms Race and Some of Its Hazards’ ” . In Arms Control, Disarmament and National Security , 110 New York : George Braziller Inc. .
  • Brodie . “ ‘A‐Bombs and Air Strategy’ ” . 8
  • 1981 . The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945–1950 , 386f New York : Random House .
  • Brodie . “ ‘The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker’ ” . 382
  • Brodie . “ ‘Sea Power in the Atomic Age’ ” . 7
  • Brodie . “ ‘The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker’ ” . 382
  • 1982 . International Security , 7 Fall : 20
  • Brodie . “ ‘War in the Atomic Age’ ” . 25
  • 1947 . ‘Navy Department Thinking on the Atomic Bomb’ . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 3 July : 179
  • Lee , Asher . 1955 . ‘Trends in Aerial Defence’ . World Politics , 7 Jan. : 251
  • Borowski , Harry R. 1982 . The Hollow Threat , 104 – 5 . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press .
  • Brown , Anthony Cave , ed. 1978 . Dropshot , 24 – 7 . New York : Dial Press/James Wade .
  • Brodie , Bernard . 1947 . ‘A Critique of Army and Navy Thinking on the Atomic Bomb’ . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 3 Aug. : 207 – 8 .
  • Futrell . 1967 . “ ‘Air Power in World War II’ ” . In The United States Air Force , Edited by: MacCloskey , Munro . 40 New York : Praeger . (Brigadier General, USAF, Ret.)
  • Brodie . “ ‘Implications for Military Policy’ ” . 99
  • Brodie . “ ‘A‐Bombs and Air Strategy’ ” . 4 1948
  • Considine , Bob . 1943 . ‘3,000‐Man Raids Tie Up Millions of Foes, 55 per cent of Nazi Fighters’ . Washington Post , 12 Sept.
  • Irving , David . 1981 . The War Between the Generals , 67 New York : Congdon & Lattes .
  • 1950 . ‘Strategic Bombing: What It Can Do’ . The Reporter , 3 15 Aug. : 30
  • Brodie . “ ‘Strategy as a Science’ ” . 478
  • Brodie . “ ‘Changing Capabilities and War Objectives’ ” . 11
  • Brodie . “ ‘Strategy as a Science’ ” . 474
  • Brodie . “ ‘Strategic Implications of the North Atlantic Pact’ ” . 205 – 6 .
  • Brodie . “ ‘Strategic Bombing: What It Can Do’ ” . 31
  • Brodie . “ ‘Changing Capabilities and War Objectives’ ” . 11 – 12 .
  • Whiting , Kenneth . 1959 . “ ‘Post‐War Strategy’ ” . In The Soviet Air and Rocket Forces , Edited by: Lee , Asher . 100 New York : Praeger .
  • 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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