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Challenger tragedy, 129–30

Charlie Rose, 145

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 45

Cheney, Dick, 16, 34

Chilton, Kevin P.:

on eliminating nuclear weapons, 51–52

NPR and, 210–11

on nuclear retaliation, 69–70, 210

and nuclear weapons command and control, 44, 50, 52, 54, 215

at Qwest Center deterrence symposium, 50–52, 54, 69–70

China, 17, 24, 69, 77, 202–3

cyber-warfare of, 23, 32–33

eliminating nuclear weapons and, 233, 235

Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 198

nuclear taboo and, 246–47

nuclear weapons of, 14, 22–23, 222

Taiwan’s relations with, 22, 227, 235

U.S. secret reconnaissance on, 99

Chon Chibu, 182

Churchill, Winston, 56, 155–56

Cirincione, Joseph, 29

Clinton, Bill, 16, 29, 212

Clinton, Hillary, 4, 53, 207, 266 n

Colby, Elbridge “Bridge,” 27

on eliminating nuclear weapons, 228

on Georgia crisis, 204–5

Cold War, 1, 5–12, 45, 55, 131, 203, 212–13, 222–23, 243–44, 260

Burke documents and, 240–41

Burt and, 228, 232–33

close calls in, 5–8, 12, 74, 76, 100, 113, 117–18, 127–28, 130, 164, 220–21, 225–26, 232, 247–48

eliminating nuclear weapons and, 213, 218, 233–34

end of, 24, 28, 30, 42, 94, 212, 215, 222

NATO’s preemptive strike option and, 26–27

nuclear de-escalation after, 118

nuclear deterrence in, 24–27, 84

nuclear freeze movement and, 212

nuclear retaliation and, 49

nuclear taboo and, 246–47

nuclear war casualties and, 86

nuclear war games in, 199–202, 206–7

and nuclear weapons command and control, 32, 34, 42, 52, 57, 61, 65, 90, 96–97, 100, 103–4, 106, 120

“100 Nuclear Wars” plan and, 116, 123

PERIMETR and, 88

Russian strategic flights and, 9, 11

U.S. nuclear ambiguity and, 25

U.S. secret reconnaissance and, 99

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty, 57, 214

Congress, U.S., 197, 205, 246, 277 n

and nuclear weapons command and control, 34–35, 37–38, 46, 62, 90, 93, 96–98, 110, 216, 248

nuclear weapons treaties and, 13, 57, 211, 214

on surrender, 60–61

Syrian nuclear facility and, 170, 172, 182

Constitution, U.S., 33–34, 36–37, 39, 220

Cordesman, Anthony, 21

Countdown to Zero, 49

Cowen, Tyler, 73

C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation (Yarynich), 111–12, 118–19

Cuba, 11–12

Cuban Missile Crisis, 6, 12, 74, 76, 117–18, 164, 247

in Hellman’s analysis, 127–28, 130

cyber-warfare, 23, 32–33, 110, 170

Daniel, Project, 161–62

Day After, The, 252

Dayan, Moshe, 163–64

de-alerting, 201, 219, 259

eliminating nuclear weapons and, 234–35

Nunn on, 215–17

“100 Nuclear Wars” plan and, 120–21

in preventing accidental use of nuclear weapons, 118–21

DEBKAfile, 154–55

Defence Ministry, British, 41–42

Defense Department, U.S., 21, 73–74, 171, 199, 238–39, 256

Alston and, 63, 66–67

Burke documents and, 242

Chinese cyber-warfare and, 23, 32–33

on conventional weapons, 14–15

eliminating nuclear weapons and, 29, 234

and invasions of Iraq, 203

on LEP, 57

on missile defense systems, 206

NPRs and, 209–11, 216

nuclear vault and, 239

on nuclear war casualties, 71, 76–77, 79–80

and nuclear weapons command and control, 32–33, 42, 46, 50, 53–54, 74, 84, 97–98, 103–6

nuclear weapons reductions and, 121

Pakistani nuclear weapons and, 18

Russian strategic flights and, 10

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 23, 171

Defense Week, 97–98

Dobbs, Michael, 6, 247

doomsday devices:

in Dr. Strangelove, 88–90, 92

of Russia, see PERIMETR

Doomsday Men (Smith), 88, 90

Dr. Strangelove, 27, 36, 39, 48, 55, 59, 238, 251

doomsday device in, 73, 88–90, 92

dual phenomenology, 54, 67–68, 112, 127, 256

Dulles, John Foster, 22

Eden, Lynn, 77

Egypt, 3, 21, 136, 163, 220

Einstein, Albert, 89, 143

Eisenhower, Dwight, 22, 84, 241, 247

electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), 106–7, 276 n –77 n

Ellsberg, Daniel, 71–84, 90, 164

Hering and, 83–84

on nuclear war casualties, 71–73, 75–81, 86–87

on nuclear weapons command and control, 71, 74, 83–84

Pentagon Papers leaked by, 71–72, 74–76

at RAND, 73–74

SIOP and, 74–76, 82

Energy Department, U.S., 56–57

estimative language, 184–86, 195

Europe, 22, 216, 230

and fear of decapitation and surprise attack, 112–13

Holocaust and, 144–45, 149–50

Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 9, 192

missile defense systems in, 112, 116, 127, 205–6

nuclear war games and, 200–202, 207

nuclear weapons treaties and, 13

Russian strategic flights and, 10

U.S. nuclear ambiguity and, 25

fail-safe, 99–100, 240

and nuclear weapons command and control, 31–32, 49, 61–63, 83

Failsafe, 48

FOGBANK Controversy, 57

France, 60, 78, 123, 130

collision of nuclear submarine of, 248–49

supreme emergencies and, 155–56

Frankel, Benjamin, 5

Gardiner, Sam, 199–204

on Georgia crisis, 202–4

nuclear war gaming of, 199–201, 206–7

Gat, Azar, 43

Gates, Robert, 29, 198, 210–11

George, Peter, 89

Georgia, 11, 27, 202–5, 235

Germany, 60, 89, 117, 130, 141, 146

and extermination of Jews, 135–37

Israeli nuclear submarines and, 21–22, 154–55

NATO’s preemptive strike option and, 26

in nuclear war games, 201–2

supreme emergencies and, 155–56

Giant Lance, Operation, 100

global warming, 81

Global Zero Initiative, 90, 227–31, 233–35

Gordievsky, Oleg, 7, 113

Gordin, Michael, 168

grenzsituation, 130–31

Guardian, The, 25–26, 198

Hadley, Stephen, 202–5

hair-trigger alert, 52–54, 67–68, 74, 110, 209, 215–17, 258

Burke documents and, 240–41, 243–44

eliminating nuclear weapons and, 216, 237

NPR and, 210–11

Nunn on, 215–16

preventing accidents and, 118, 120

Halbach, Mel, 40, 61

Halbertal, Moshe, 152–65

on human nature, 164–65

on IDF’s ethics, 152, 158, 160, 162

nuclear deterrence and, 152–53, 158

on nuclear retaliation, 152, 155–56, 158–60, 162, 165

on preemptive nuclear strikes, 152, 155–56, 159–62, 164

on second Holocaust, 136, 163

on supreme emergencies, 152, 155–57, 159–60, 163

on Yom Kippur War, 163–64

Hamas, 134, 138–40

Hansen Collection, 238

Hayden, Michael:

on Iran, 195

Syrian nuclear facility and, 171, 173–78, 181–91

Heidegger, Martin, 146

Hellman, Martin:

on nuclear optimism, 128–30

in quantifying nuclear war risk, 125–31

Herf, Jeffrey, 135–36

Hering, Harold I.:

Blair on, 104, 110, 226

nuclear taboo and, 248

on nuclear weapons command and control, 31–39, 42, 46, 83–84, 104, 110, 226, 248

Hersey, John, 251

Hersh, Seymour, 3–4, 21, 170, 172

Hezbollah, 134, 160

Hiroshima, 8, 49, 56, 77, 125, 128, 157, 161, 227, 240

nuclear taboo and, 250–51, 253–54

Hitler, Adolf, 80, 84, 132–47, 164, 202, 218, 240

and extermination of Jews, 136, 138–41, 143

Holocaust of, 20, 22, 77, 86, 134–39, 141–42, 144–47, 150

and invention of nuclear weapons, 143

supreme emergencies and, 155–56

Hodge, Nathan, 103