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Bernard Brodie

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bernard Brodie 1910-78, American military strategist, b. Chicago. Brodie edited The Absolute Weapon (1946), the first book on nuclear strategy, and was a strategic theorist at the Rand Corporation (1951-66). Although his early work was on naval history, he later concentrated on the significance of airpower in the nuclear age. He advocated a policy of deterrence (see nuclear strategy ). His writings include A Guide to Naval Strategy (1942), Strategy in the Missile Age (1959), Escalation and the Nuclear Option (1966), and War and Politics (1973). Bibliography: See... Read more
Steamships
Steamships. In his classic study, Sea Power in the Machine Age , Bernard Brodie observed that navies were relatively late in utilization of the technological advances of the machine age. Progress in steampower... Read more
Herman Kahn
...work in physics at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the Rand Corporation . Unlike scholars such as Bernard Brodie , he believed that nuclear war could be won. At Rand, he studied the application of such analytic techniques as game... Read more

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