Nuclear Mentalities?

Strategies and Beliefs in Britain, France and the FRG

By: B. Heuser

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Hardcover | 10 August 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Concepts associated with nuclear strategy often go beyond any 'objective' logic of deterrence. Nuclear weapons have special roles in different national belief-systems, myths surround them, they have catalysed tensions already existing in societies, become symbols of power or of past sins. This book delves into the conscious and subconscious beliefs in Britain, France and the Federal Republic of Germany (all voiced in debates about nuclear strategy) about society, the State and power structures, each country's place in the world, the international system, allies and enemies.

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Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Abbreviations used in the Notes	p. xi
Introduction: Nuclear Mentalities--Meaning what?	p. 1
Notes	p. 2
Britain: Knights, Merchants and Protesters	p. 3
Halting the Decline	p. 4
Which Threat?	p. 6
The Soviet threat	p. 6
Vulnerability to nuclear strikes	p. 8
Have nuclear weapons abolished major war?	p. 10
Ban, ban, ban the bloody H-bomb	p. 11
The internal threat: a fragile society	p. 16
Belief in convergence; commonality of interest with the enemy	p. 22
Balance of Power	p. 25
The 'Special Relationship'	p. 28
America won't let us down	p. 32
Influence, reinsurance and existential deterrence	p. 33
NATO: the Permanent Alliance	p. 36
Division of roles within the Alliance	p. 37
Interdependence	p. 38
NATO Europe	p. 39
France and Germany	p. 41
The Nuclear Have-Nots and the 'White Man's Burden'	p. 43
Britain's Role	p. 44
World power, Hindu cow or Atlantic brace?	p. 44
The bass voice of Sir Galahad	p. 47
Moral leader in disarmament	p. 49
Conclusions: Compromises	p. 50
Notes	p. 53
France: The Nuclear Monarchy	p. 75
Atom and Cosmos	p. 75
Medieval roots of French nuclear theology	p. 75
President and people: Jupiter and the general will	p. 76
The Third World War will not take place	p. 84
Caesarism, the citizen-soldier and the lesson of 1940	p. 85
Fear of internal discord	p. 90
Frogs, bulls and Monsieur Seguin's goat: the opposition	p. 93
Power and weakness of the Catholic Church	p. 96
Histoire Oblige	p. 97
Defence and French identity	p. 97
History, grandeur, glory and prestige	p. 99
Leadership and the civilising mission	p. 102
France is Europe	p. 104
Germany: ghosts of the past and hopes for the future	p. 109
France and Her Rivals for World Leadership	p. 115
Perfidious Albion	p. 115
America: France's chief rival	p. 117
US and SU: mirror images?	p. 120
Eternal Russia	p. 122
The Nation versus Alliances	p. 126
Friendship in all directions	p. 127
The loyal ally versus neutralism and non-alignment	p. 128
Sovereignty and the 'Slavery of Independence'	p. 130
Integration--the enemy	p. 133
The value of uncertainty	p. 138
NATO: America's Holy Roman Empire	p. 139
Conclusions: Metaphysics	p. 142
Notes	p. 144
The Federal Republic of Germany: Sin and Redemption	p. 179
Preparing a 'Global Auschwitz'	p. 180
First Bergen-Belsen, now Bergen-Hohne	p. 180
Every war a crime	p. 183
Anti-militarism	p. 185
Punishment: the Division of Germany and Nuclear Weapons	p. 186
The Quest for Atonement: I: Opposition to Nuclear Weapons	p. 188
The holy: Christians	p. 190
The moralists: Resistants	p. 192
... and the emotional: atomic hysteria	p. 195
The Quest for Atonement II: Learning from History	p. 197
Breaking with the past: the new German mission	p. 197
Impatience	p. 199
The Nuclear World	p. 200
New age	p. 200
Nuclear weapons and deterrence of war	p. 201
The Interstate System	p. 203
Alliances and international organisations	p. 205
Nationalism and sovereignty	p. 208
The USSR: the enemy	p. 212
The GDR: Enemy or victim?	p. 215
The US, 'the strongest pillar of our Freedom'	p. 216
France: the 'atom-dwarf'	p. 219
Britain: the all-too-secret ally	p. 223
The Quest for a New Identity	p. 225
Europe	p. 225
The Atlantic Community	p. 228
Conclusions: Metamorphosis	p. 229
Notes	p. 231
Comparisons and Conclusions	p. 260
Comparisons	p. 260
Political Culture and Strategy	p. 264
Belief Clusters and Identity	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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