Tempting Armageddon: Soviet vs. NATO Nuclear Strategy

Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: Watch Red Atoms on Nebula: Since the inception of the nuclear bomb, military strategists have tried to figure out how to use them best. During the Cold War, this led to two very different doctrines but on both sides of the Iron Curtain the military wasn’t sure of you could actually win Nuclear War. » SUPPORT US » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Bondarenko, V.M. “The Modern Revolution in Military Affairs and the Combat Readiness of the Armed Forces“, Kommunist Vooruzhennykh Sil - Communist of the Armed Forces, (December 1968) Brezhnev, L. I. Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Vol. 28, No. 8 (March 1976) Bundy, McGeorge, Danger and Survival, (New York, NY : Random House, 1988) Carnegie Endowment for Internatinal Peace, “JFK on Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation“ (2003) Catadul, Honoré M., Soviet Nuclear Strategy from Stalin to Gorbachev: A Revolution in Soviet Military and Political Thinking, (Berlin : Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 1988) Craig, Campell & Radchenko, Sergey, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008) Holloway, David, “Entering the Nuclear Arms Race: The Soviet Decision to Build the Atomic Bomb, 1939-45“, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 11, No. 2, Theme Issue: Soviet Science (May, 1981) Josephson, Paul R., Red Atom: Russia’s Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today, (New York, NY : W.H. Freeman and Company, 1999) Kiser, John W., “How the Arms Race Really Helps Moscow”, Foreign Policy, No. 60 (Autumn, 1985) Malinovskiy, R. Ya. Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Vol. 14, No. 1 (November 1961) Pondrom, Lee G. The Soviet Atomic Project: How the Soviet Union Obtained the Atomic Bomb, (Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.) Rauf, Tariq, “Soviet Perspective on Nuclear War”, Strategic Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1985) ertais, Bruno, “In Defense of Deterrence: The Relevance, Morality and Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons”, Proliferation Papers, No. 39 (2011) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Above Zero Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: Research by: Mark Newton Fact checking: Jesse Alexander Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2023