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100 1  Johnstone, Paul H.|q(Paul Howard),|d1903-1981,|eauthor. 
245 10 From MAD to madness :|binside Pentagon nuclear war 
       planning : memoir /|cby Paul H. Johnstone : introduction 
       and commentary by Diana Johnstone. 
246 3  Inside Pentagon nuclear war planning, a memoir 
246 30 Inside Pentagon nuclear war planning : memoir 
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264  1 Atlanta, GA :|bClarity Press, Incorporated,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
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505 0  Introduction / by Diana Johnstone -- Part 1. The spirit of
       the times -- The fog of war planning -- Memoirs of a 
       humanist in the Pentagon / by Paul H. Johnstone -- 
       Foreword: what this is all about -- The world of target 
       planning -- Air targets intelligence -- Air targets 
       doctrine -- Economic war potential doctrine applied to 
       occupation policies -- Some problems and methods -- 
       Playing games with nuclear war -- The Cold War atmosphere 
       -- Games and bonuses -- The rise of fear -- Part 2. 
       Imagining doomsday -- The fallout study -- The "humane 
       alternative" -- The civilian morale study -- The strategic
       weapons study -- The tenor of the times -- The command and
       control dilemma -- Exploring "implications" -- Part 3. The
       critical incident studies -- The Laos crisis -- The Berlin
       Crisis -- Postface: Doomsday postponed / by Diana 
       Johnstone. 
520    "This deathbed memoir by Dr. Paul H. Johnstone, former 
       senior analyst in the Strategic Weapons Evaluation Group 
       (WSEG) in the Pentagon and a co-author of The Pentagon 
       Papers, provides an authoritative analysis of the 
       implications of nuclear war that remain insurmountable 
       today. Indeed, such research has been kept largely secret,
       with the intention "not to alarm the public" about what 
       was being cooked up. This is the story of how U.S. 
       strategic planners in the 1950s and 1960s worked their way
       to the conclusion that nuclear war was unthinkable. It 
       drives home these key understandings: - That whichever way
       you look at it -- and this book shows the many ways 
       analysts tried to skirt the problem -- nuclear war means 
       mutual destruction - That Pentagon planners could accept 
       the possibility of totally destroying another nation, 
       while taking massive destructive losses ourselves, and 
       still conclude that "we would prevail"--That the 
       supposedly "scientific answers" provided to a wide range 
       of unanswerable questions are of highly dubious standing. 
       - That official spheres neglect anything near a comparable
       effort to understand the "enemy" point of view, rather 
       than to annihilate him, or to use such understanding to 
       make peace. Dr. Johnstone's memoirs of twenty years in the
       Pentagon tell that story succinctly, coolly and 
       objectively. While remaining highly secret - so much so 
       that Dr. Johnstone himself was denied access to what he 
       had written - these studies had a major impact on official
       policy. They contributed to a shift from the notion that 
       the United States could inflict "massive retaliation" on 
       its Soviet enemy to recognition that a nuclear exchange 
       would bring about Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The 
       alarming truth today is that these lessons seem to have 
       been forgotten."--Provided by publisher. 
588 0  Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; 
       resource not viewed. 
600 10 Johnstone, Paul H.|q(Paul Howard),|d1903-1981. 
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610 10 United States.|bDepartment of Defense.|bWeapons Systems 
       Evaluation Group|xHistory. 
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       Evaluation Group.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst02000175 
611 27 Cold War (1945-1989)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01754978 
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650  0 Military planning|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
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650  0 Strategic forces|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Deterrence (Strategy)|xHistory|y20th century. 
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650  7 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING|xMilitary Science.|2bisacsh 
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651  0 United States|xMilitary policy|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  0 United States|xOfficials and employees|vBiography. 
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700 1  Johnstone, Diana,|d1934-|eauthor. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aJohnstone, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1903-
       1981.|tFrom MAD to madness.|dAtlanta, GA : Clarity Press, 
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