Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Maps

Preface

PART I: THE TWO GREAT ALLIANCES

  1. ‘A Bewildered, Baffled and Breathless World’

  2. The Birth of NATO

  3. The Development of NATO: 1949–1989

  4. Stresses and Strains

  5. NATO’S Military Organization

  6. The Warsaw Pact

PART II: STRATEGIC ISSUES

  7. The Nature of Nuclear War

  8. Nuclear War-Fighting Systems

  9. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

10. Submarine-Based Missiles

11. Strategic Bombers

12. The Other Strategic Nuclear Powers

13. Civil Defence

14. Assessing the Balance

PART III: NAVAL WARFARE

15. The NATO Navies

16. The Warsaw Pact Navies

17. Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines

18. Diesel-Electric Submarines

19. Aircraft Carriers

20. Surface Warships

21. NATO’s 1950s Mine-Warfare Programme

22. Amphibious Warfare

PART IV: THE LAND BATTLE ON THE CENTRAL FRONT

23. NATO’s Central Region Ground Forces

24. Warsaw Pact Deployment on the Central Front

25. Main Battle Tanks

26. Infantry

27. Artillery

PART V: AIR WARFARE

28. NATO Air Forces

29. NATO Fighter and Attack Aircraft

30. Warsaw Pact Air Forces

PART VI: THE MAJOR ISSUES

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

35. If Nuclear War had Come

36. The Financial Cost

37. The Cold War in Retrospect

APPENDICES

  1. Western Union Defence Organization

  2. The North Atlantic Treaty

  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

  6. Nuclear Weapons ‘Firsts’

  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

11. Strategic Bombers

12. Strategic Tanker Aircraft

13. Strategic Nuclear Bombs and Bombers: UK

14. Ballistic-Missile Submarines: China, France, UK

15. French Nuclear Weapons

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

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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