"I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment." -Herman Kahn
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Important New Declassified Documents on USAF and Nuclear Weapons
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the National Security Archive at George Washington University has posted a number of very interesting declassified institutional histories produced by the USAF. These include some very interesting discussions of the relationship between weapons acquisitions and strategic doctrine. There's a lot of material here, and it is going to take me awhile to digest all of it. But if you're into this sort of thing, I wholeheartedly recommend that you go take a look.
Wow - great find. I'll be happy for days going through this lot. Thanks
ReplyDeleteThese documents look fascinating, thanks. So I guess it is a pretty well-founded belief that the air force was more or less singularly intent on using nuclear weapons in many early Cold-War conflicts.
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