Social Scientists and Nuclear Deterrence

One of the striking intellectual phenomena of the past decade is the academic literature on military strategy: a literature produced not by military planners but by social scientists writing from within the academy or from such havens as the RAND Corporation. This literature has had a two-fold effect on the social sciences. Much work is being done on problems that once were almost completely outside the range of social scientists. And for the first time social science has become important in ...