Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality -- Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of rules -- The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research -- Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human mind -- "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences...

From the preface: This volume, like its predecessors "NATO after thirty years" (1981) and "The Warsaw Pact: political purpose and military means" (1982) , grew out of a conference held at Kent (Ohio, USA). The authors of the essays in this collection are concerned with superpower and allied...

The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy – and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola’s authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary...