Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex

Strategic stability is admired as the basis of arms control, but the doctrine is not what is commonly assumed. Benjamin T. Wilson shows that its early promoters falsely asserted their own objectivity and developed a logic that actually perpetuated the nuclear arms race, benefiting the military-industrial complex that commanded their loyalty.

• | Author: Benjamin Wilson
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 18, 2025
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674976085
• | ISBN-10: 0674976088