The authors, both university physicists, maintain that the nuclear policy of the U.S.A. for the past 40 years has not been one of deterrence as publicly stated, but rather has been one of threatening the use of nuclear weapons. This policy has been documented in such book as the New England Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee's The Deadly Connection (Library Journal 4/15/86) and Barry M. Blechman and Stephen S. Kaplan's Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces as a Political Instrument (Library Journal 3/1/79). Nonetheless, the authors' thorough analysis of recently released Pentagon documents provides the basis for a description of the nuclear war fighting strategy of the Reagan administration. The authors also outline the attitudes and biases of U.S. nuclear strategists and policymakers. Recommended for public and university libraries.—Dennis Felbel, University of Manitoba Library, Winnipeg Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Author
(Arabic: ميشيو كاكو Russian: Митио Каку Chinese: 加來道雄) Dr. Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist at the City College of New York, best-selling author, a futurist, and a communicator and popularizer of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics of science. He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011). Dr. Michio is the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory. Kaku was a Visitor and Member (1973 and 1990) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and New York University. He currently holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York.
