Cold War

“This is an outstanding book.  Sean Maloney has written an extremely detailed, prodigiously researched with primary sources, and highly readable account of the US nuclear war plans of the 1950s.  He emphasizes the crucial nature of targeting schemes, first-rate and prolific intelligence gathering systems and analysis, and global command and control of nuclear forces.  These…

King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film’s historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean…

  The first comprehensive historical (or otherwise) treatment of Canada’s nuclear weapons story. Despite attempts by Canadian bureaucratic and cultural mavens to downplay or even suppress the historical facts, Canada’s armed forces deployed a dramatic array of nuclear capabilities during the first half of the Cold War. Indeed, by 1964, Canadian strike aircraft could deliver…

  Chances for Peace was a collaboration with my old friend John Llambias and broke new ground in the use of oral history in Canadian military history. The Old Guard dismissed oral history: one of them even once said to me, “Veterans lie. Period,” John and I begged to differ. We spoke with Canadian soldiers…

    CUNPK made front-page news the day it was released in 2002. Using declassified sources never employed before, the book demonstrated that Canada’s UN peacekeeping efforts during the first half of the Cold War were in fact extentions of NATO strategy to contain Soviet communist influence in the decolonizing Third World and to prop…

  Abstract: “War Without Battles” is the first history of a NATO Cold War formation and uses the Canadian Army’s contribution to NATO’s Central Region in West Germany as a lens from which to view NATO strategy and operational doctrine critical to deterring the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact forces. This history covers the…