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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Illustrations
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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