POLI SCI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, Atlantic Ocean, Atomic Demolition Munition
27 Mar 2018
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Proposition 2: nuclear weapons do no induce stability: misperceptions and miscalculations (crises, rationality of rulers, accidents are possible, nuclear strategies not the result of careful calibration, playing chicken is inherently dangerous. The air force, urges deployment figured around 2,000 to 3,000. General thomas s power, commander of strategic air command wanted 10,000 missiles. Mcnamara then set the deployment goal at first at 800 then soon after increased it to. 1,000 (political bargaining, it was a round number) Current problems: nuclear proliferation, portability and non-state actors. Portability: davy crockett = 51 at . 01 kt. Jfk campaigned for presidency projected image of tough cold warrior to confront the russian for global battle of survival . Khrushchev met with fidel castro, promising to support cuba"s quest to communism in the west. Khrushchev believed in wars of national liberalism. April 17 = bay of pigs, invasion was a miserable failure. Threats at vienna resulted of war in berlin.
