The Nuclear Trap Paperback 1974 Robert E Walters
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This listing is for The Nuclear Trap Paperback 1974 Robert E Walters.
Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 223
Publisher: Penguin (1974)
Is the bomb out of date? In this important re-appraisal of contemporary strategic thinking Robert Walters demolishes the famous geopolitical concept which dubbed Russia and Siberia as "Heartland" - the unassailable land fortress of the world. What was true for Sir Halford Mackinder in 1904, he argues, is no longer true now that a nuclear-powered submarine has circumnavigated the Arctic Ocean beneath the ice. This obsession with Heartland has give impetus to Western stock-piling of atomic weapons and the perfection of ICBMs - missles designed to threaten an otherwise unapproachable area. These, and the idea of the nuclear deterrent, are now obseolescent, he declares. In place of a static, destructive age of nuclear war, Robert Walters forecasts a resurgence of seapower based on nuclear-powered undersea ships of unlimited range, carrying cargo, oil, weap
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