Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), here, here, here, here
ballistic missiles, here, here, here. See also specific ballistic missile types
bargaining theory, here, here, here
basic national security policy (BNSP), here, here, here, here, here, here
Battle of the Somme, here
Bay of Pigs, here, here
Beale, USS, here
Belgium, here
Berlin, British and American attacks on, here, here, here
Berlin blockade (1948), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Berlin crisis
JFK and, here, here, here, here, here
Khrushchev and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
McNamara and, here
Nitze and, here, here
nuclear threats, here, here
nuclear war planning and, here, here, here
Berlin political-military simulation game, here, here, here
Berlin Wall, here, here, here
Beschloss, Michael, here, here
Bethe, Hans, here, here, here, here, here
Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), here
Bidault, Georges, here
Bikini Atoll tests, here, here
bin Laden, Osama, here
Biryuzov, Sergey, here
Blair, Bruce, here, here, here
blind bombing, here
Blitz, here, here, here, here, here
block-busters, here
BMEWS. See Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)
BNSP. See basic national security policy (BNSP)
Bolshakov, George, here
Bomber Command, RAF, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Bomber Command, XXI, here, here
bonus targets or casualties, here, here, here, here, here
Boudin, Leonard, here
Bradley, General, here
Braun, Wernher von, here
Breit, George, here
Brezhnev, Leonid, here
brinkmanship, here
Britain
bombing in World War II, here, here, here, here
bombing of, and morale in, here, here
cities as targets and, here, here, here, here, here
enslavement by Nazis and, here
FDR’s appeal and, here, here
firestorming of German cities by, here
heavy bombers and, here
IRBMs in, here
nuclear weapons held by, here
strategic bombing and, here, here, here, here, here
war planner beliefs, here
Brittain, Vera, here
Brode, Hal, here
Brodie, Bernard, here, here
Brown, Harold, here, here
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, here
Buck, Pearl S., here
Buckley, Oliver, here
Bundy, McGeorge
Acheson’s advice to Kennedy and, here
BNSP and, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here
delegation of authority and, here, here, here
on deterrence, here
Ellsberg’s briefing to, here, here, here, here
fallout shelters and, here
at Havana conference in 2002, here
Ho Chi Minh and, here
JSCP briefing and, here, here, here
Pacific Command war plans and, here
Rostow and, here
Stimson’s account of atom bomb use by, here
Burchinal, David, here
Burke, Arleigh, here
Burlatsky, Fyodor, here, here
Burr, William, here
Burt, Richard, here, here
Bush, George H. W., here, here, here, here
Bush, George W., here, here, here, here, here, here
Bush, Vannevar, here
Butler, George Lee, here, here
The Button (D. Ford), here
Cambodia, here, here
capabilities planning, here, here, here
Caproni, Giovanni, here, here
Carter, Jimmy
delegation of authority and, here
limited nuclear options and, here
major attack options offered to, here
neutron bomb and, here
nuclear war planning under, here, here, here, here, here, here
Carter Doctrine, here, here, here, here
Cartwright, James E., here
Casablanca Conference (1943), here
Castro, Fidel, here, here, here, here
central war, here, here
CEP. See circular error probability (CEP)
Chayes, Abe, here, here, here, here, here
Cheney, Richard, here, here, here
China. See also Sino-Soviet bloc
bombing and morale of, here
deaths predicted for, in general war, here, here
Japanese bombing of cities in, here, here
Khrushchev and, here
Korean War and, here, here, here, here
Nanking massacre in, here
NFU commitment, here
nuclear targets in, here
Quemoy crises and, here, here
SIOP presentation and, here, here, here
Soviet Union and, here, here, here, here
totalitarianism, here
U.S. general war plan and, here, here, here, here, here, here
U.S. nuclear war planning and, here, here, here, here, here
U.S. treaty violations with Japan and, here, here
Vietnam War and, here
withhold option on, here
Chomsky, Noam, here, here
Churchill, Winston, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
CIA, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
CINCPAC. See Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC)
CINCSAC. See Commander in Chief of Strategic Arms Command (CINCSAC)
circular error probability (CEP), here
cities, bombing of, here. See also Hiroshima, bombing of; Nagasaki, bombing of; no cities approach
change in consciousness and, here, here
in China, here, here
FDR’s appeal and, here, here
February 14, 1942 decision and, here
in Japan, here, here
London, England, here, here, here, here, here
nuclear weapons and, here, here
Rotterdam, Netherlands, here
in Spain, here, here, here
strategic bombing, here, here, here
cities, burning of, here
atomic bombs and, here
British and American coordinated bombings, here
firebombing, here, here, here
science of, here
terror bombing, here
civilian supergrade level GS-18, here, here
Civil War, here
Clark, Mark, here
Clawson, Don, here
Clifford, Clark, here
climate change, here
Clinton, Bill, here, here, here, here
Clinton, Hillary, here, here, here, here
coercive strategy, here, here, here, here, here
Cohen, Sam, here, here
Cold War
airborne command post during, here
alert levels, here
American public awareness during, here
brinkmanship and, here
delegation of authority during, here
ending of, here, here, here, here
Go response emphasis during, here
iron curtain, here
major attack options during, here
Soviet threat to free world and, here, here
Sputnik and, here
Truman Doctrine, here
U-2 plane shot down during, here
USAF judgment of Kennedy during, here
Command and Control (Schlosser), here
command and control, preservation of, here, here, here, here, here, here
command and control of nuclear retaliatory forces, here
Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC). See also General Emergency Operations Plan (GEOP)
“cage” in Plans section of headquarters, here
command and control study, here, here, here
delegation of authority by, here, here
delegation of authority to, here, here, here, here
nuclear war planning for Sino-Soviet bloc, here, here
nuclear weapons in Japanese tidal waters and, here
sub-delegation and, here
Commander in Chief of Strategic Arms Command (CINCSAC), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Communism and Communists, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Compton, Arthur H., here, here, here
Conant, James, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
conventional weapons and forces, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Corona satellite program, here, here, here
counterforce, here, here, here, here, here
Cousins, Norman, here
Cox, Archibald, here
Cragg, Ernie, here, here, here, here, here
cruise missiles, here
Cuba, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Cuban missile crisis, here
dangers of, here
Ellsberg’s, here
Gilpatric’s speech and, here
Khrushchev and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
lessons from, here
quarantine (blockade), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Robert Kennedy’s account of, here
Russia’s response to, here
cultural lag, here
DAC. See Democratic Advisory Council (DAC)
damage limiting concept, here, here, here, here, here
DARPA. See Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Davis, Nuel Phar, here, here
Davis, Ruth M., here
The Dead Hand (Hoffman), here
Dead Hand system, here, here
Dean, Gordon, here
death-beam gap, here
decapitation of enemy leadership, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
decision theory, here, here, here. See also uncertainty, decision-making under
Declaration on the Prevention of Nuclear Catastrophe, here
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), here
Defense Department, here, here, here, here
de Gaulle, Charles, here, here
delegation of authority, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Democratic Advisory Council (DAC), here, here
Denyer, Barbara, here
deterrent gap, here
DEW Line. See Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line)
Dien Bien Phu, here
Digby, Jim, here
Dillon, C. Douglas, here
Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), here
Dobrynin, Anatoly, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Dobson, Joel, here
Doomsday Machine(s). See also Dr. Strangelove
creation of, here
dismantling of, here, here, here
failure to recognize, here
Kahn’s envisioning of, here, here, here, here
Khrushchev’s words about, here
madness of, here
in U.S. and Russia, here, here, here, here
Douglas, Jim, here
Douhet, Giulio, here, here, here
Dower, John, here, here
Dresden, Germany, here, here, here, here, here
Dr. Strangelove (film)
Doomsday Machine in, here, here, here, here
Dr. Strangelove (character), here
electronic interlock on B-52, here
General Buck Turgidson (character), here, here, here
General Jack D. Ripper (character), here, here, here
plot of, here, here, here
DuBridge, L.A., here
Dulles, John Foster, here, here, here, here
DuPont, here, here
Dyess, William, here, here
Dyson, Freeman, here, here
Eastern Europe, here, here, here, here, here
East Germany, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Eden, Lynn, here
Edwards, John, here, here, here
Einstein, Albert, here, here
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
allies, attitudes of, and, here, here
atomic bombs and, here, here
BNSP and, here
deaths predicted for nuclear war and, here, here
delegation of authority by, here, here, here, here, here, here
general war plan and, here, here, here, here
JCS and, here, here
JCS and control system under, here
Khrushchev’s ultimatum to, here
Korean War and, here, here, here
LeMay and, here
NIEs and, here
nuclear war planning, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
nuclear weapon changes and, here
RAND employees and, here
risks accepted by, here
Sputnik and, here, here, here
sub-delegation of authority and, here
Ekstrom, Clarence E., here, here, here
Eldridge, Frank, here
Ellsberg’s family, here, here, here, here, here
Emergency War Plan (EWP), here
Enthoven, Alain, here, here, here, here, here, here
envelope authentication, here, here, here, here
Europe, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. See also Eastern Europe; Western Europe
EWP. See Emergency War Plan (EWP)
Execute orders
ambiguity of lack of, here, here, here
distribution of, here
irreversibility of, here, here
procedures for authenticating, here
timing of implementation of, here
Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
extended deterrence, here
Eyes Only designation, here, here, here, here, here
F-100 alert planes, here, here, here, here
Fail Safe (film), here
fail-safe procedure, here, here
fallout shelters, here, here
false alarms, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
FBI, here, here
Felt, Harry D., here, here, here, here, here, here, here. See also Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC)
Fermi, Enrico, here, here, here, here, here, here
financial disasters, here
Finland, here, here
Finletter, Thomas K., here
Firecracker, here
firestorms and firebombing
earthquake in Japan and, here, here
as effect of nuclear war, here, here
LeMay and, here, here
RAF and, here, here, here, here, here
as terrorism, here
Tokyo fire, here
first strike by Soviet Union, here
first-strike capability, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
first strike or first use by U.S.
casualties and damage caused by, here, here, here, here, here
early plans, here
Eisenhower and, here, here
first strike vs. first use, here, here
Holloway and, here
Kennedy and, here
limited war concept and, here, here, here
McNamara and, here
in response to conventional weapons and forces, here, here
Soviets and, here, here
first-use doctrine, here
Fisher, Roger, h
ere, here
fission bomb, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. See also nuclear fission
flexible response, here, here
Flying Fortresses, here, here
“football” carrying authorization codes, here, here, here, here
Ford, Daniel, here, here, here
Ford, Gerald, here, here, here, here
Ford, John, here
Ford Willow Run plant, here
Forrestal, James, here
France, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Franck, James, and Franck Committee, here
fratricide, here, here
Freedom of Information Act, here
Freiburg, Germany, here
French independent nuclear force, here, here, here, here
French Revolution, here
Fuchs, Klaus, here
Fursenko, Aleksandr, here
fusion bomb, here. See also nuclear fusion
GAC. See General Advisory Committee (GAC)
game theory, here, here
Gates, Thomas, here, here, here, here, here, here
General Advisory Committee (GAC), here, here, here, here
General Electric, here, here
General Emergency Operations Plan (GEOP), here, here, here, here
general war
definition of, here, here, here, here, here
president, and plans for, here, here, here
reserve forces and, here
spasm concept of, here
GEOP. See General Emergency Operations Plan (GEOP)
George, Peter, here
Georgia, Sherman’s march through, here
Germany. See also Berlin crisis; East Germany; West Germany
antiaircraft capability, here
atomic bomb development and, here, here
Blitz, here, here, here, here, here
blitzkrieg on France, here
bombing of, and morale in, here
bombing of cities, here, here, here, here
Britain and, in WWII, here, here
British and American coordinated bombing of, here, here
FDR’s statement and, here, here, here
fear of bomb development by, here, here, here
firebombing and firestorms in, here, here, here, here
NATO alliance and, here
nuclear fission and, here, here
Soviet ICBMs threatening, here
strategic bombing and, here, here, here, here, here
surrender of, here
Thirty Years’ War in, here
U.S. bases in, here
Wannsee Conference in, here
Giffels & Rossetti, here, here
Gilmore, James, here
Gilpatric, Roswell
general war planning and, here, here, here, here, here
speech, here, here, here, here
Ginsberg, Allen, here
Giraldi, Philip, here, here
Giuliani, Rudolph, here
Goebbels, Joseph, here, here
Goldstein, Richard, here, here
Goodchild, Peter, here, here, here