PART I: THE TWO GREAT ALLIANCES
1. ‘A Bewildered, Baffled and Breathless World’
3. The Development of NATO: 1949–1989
5. NATO’S Military Organization
8. Nuclear War-Fighting Systems
9. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
12. The Other Strategic Nuclear Powers
17. Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines
18. Diesel-Electric Submarines
21. NATO’s 1950s Mine-Warfare Programme
PART IV: THE LAND BATTLE ON THE CENTRAL FRONT
23. NATO’s Central Region Ground Forces
24. Warsaw Pact Deployment on the Central Front
29. NATO Fighter and Attack Aircraft
31. The Mechanics of Going to War
32. Berlin: Front-Line City of the Cold War
33. Battlefield Nuclear Weapons
34. Conventional War in Europe
37. The Cold War in Retrospect
1. Western Union Defence Organization
3. The Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance
4. Equivalent Ranks and the ‘Star’ System
5. Senior Appointments 1949–1990: NATO and the Warsaw Pact
7. German and US Land-Based Strategic Missiles: 1944–1990
8. Soviet Land-Based Strategic Missiles: 1955–1990
9. Sea-Launched Strategic Missiles
10. Ballistic-Missile Submarines
13. Strategic Nuclear Bombs and Bombers: UK
14. Ballistic-Missile Submarines: China, France, UK
16. Chinese Ballistic Missiles
17. Strategic Missile Balances: 1970, 1980, 1990
18. NATO and Soviet Naval Strengths: 1950
19. Nuclear Submarine Accidents: USSR
20. Soviet Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines
21. Soviet Diesel-Electric Submarines
22. US Navy Carrier Air Wing: 1980
23. Sea Mines Laid and Damage Caused in the Second World War
24. NATO’s 1950s Mine Countermeasures Programme
25. Main Battle Tanks: NATO and Warsaw Pact
26. Artillery: NATO and Warsaw Pact
27. Tactical Nuclear Weapons Systems
28. A Hypothetical US Counter-Force Attack on Soviet Strategic Forces in 1986