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Cover Contents About the Book About the Author List of Illustrations Maps Dedication Title Page 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 Picture Section Notes Index Bibliography Copyright

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