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Contents Prologue The Invisible Boy One: One Week in 1943 1. Hell's Bottom 2. Unconditional Surrender 3. Operation Pointblank 4. LeMay 5. The Whiz Kid 6. Leslie Groves Does It All 7. The Other September 11's Two: The Absolute Weapon 1. Truman's "Decision" 2. Stimson's Defense 3. Not Japan, but Moscow? 4. Atomic Forgetfulness 5. Groves' Toboggan 6. The Second Coming in Wrath 7. The Hamburg Threshold 8. After Dresden 9. The Babe Ruth of Bombers 10. A Second 'Original Sin' Three: The Cold War Begins 1. Tendered A Commission 2. Stimson's September 11 3. Forrestal Agonistes 4. Kennan's Mistake 5. Foundational Paranoia 6. War Inside the Pentagon 7. Blockade and the Birth of the Air Force 8. The Russians Are Coming 9. Navy Versus Air Force 10. That Cop Four: Fear Hardens 1. Stalin's Teeth 2. No to the H-Bomb 3. Nitze to the Rescue 4. Forrestal's Ghost: NSC-68 5. Korea Saved Us 6. Truman's Other Decision 7. The Test 8. Duck and Cover 9. Massive Retaliation 10. Missed Opportunity at Stalin's Death 11. Defense Intellectuals 12. Operation Top Hat 13. Gaither Report: Nitze Again Five: The Turning Point 1. Life of the Pentagon 2. A Lark in Berlin 3. There Will Be War 4. Head to Richmond 5. Let Both Sides 6. The Need for New Intelligence 7. McNamara and LeMay 8. All-out Spasm Attack 9. The Kaysen Memos 10. Edge of the Abyss 11. At American University 12. Why We Love Him Six: The Exorcism 1. Present at the Destruction 2. LeMay to the Absurd 3. Errors of the Mind 4. Great White Whale 5. McNamara's Endgame 6. From "Disarmament" to "Arms Control" 7. The Berrigan Brothers 8. Enter the ABM; Re-enter Nitze 9. Nixon and Laird 10. Knock-out Blow 11. Bombing the Pentagon? 12. Not With a Bang Seven: Upstream 1. Nuclear Priesthood 2. The Madman Theory 3. The Schlesinger Doctrine 4. Enter Rumsfeld and Cheney 5. Jimmy Carter's Question 6. The Frozen Smile 7. The People Are Heard 8. Be Not Afraid 9. We Win, You Lose, Sign Here 10. The Freeze 11. The Abolitionist 12. Sanctuary 13. Enter Gorbachev 14. Answer to Forrestal Eight: Unending War 1. Into Plowshares 2. Back to Stimson 3. Operation Just Cause 4. Fool's Game 5. New World Order 6. The Chinese Word 7. Goldwater-Nichols 8. The Immigrant's Son 9. Clinton's Honor 10. Gays in the Military 11. The Real Contrast with Truman 12. The Nuclear Posture Review 13. The Balkans Wars 14. Apostolic Succession 15. September 11, 2001 Epilogue New World Order 1. National Memory 2. The Normalization of War 3. Instant Replay 4. National Security? 5. Revenge 6. I Have a Dream Bibliography Notes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
United States -- Military policy.
Pentagon (Va.).
United States. Dept. of Defense.
Militarism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Militarism -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Arms race -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Arms race -- United States -- History -- 21st century.