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Massing the Tropes

Massing the Tropes: The Metaphorical Construction of American Nuclear Strategy

Westport (US) : ABC-CLIO, 2005-10-30
Libro/Ed. Rilegata : pag. 196 237x161 cm.
Ean/Isbn: 9780275967222 (0-275-96722-0)
Lingua: Inglese
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Analyzes the primary and secondary metaphors invoked to conceptualize and manage nuclear weaponry. The author draws a parallel between dramatic changes in the ancient Greek account of conflict and the American conceptualization of nuclear weapons.
At the dawn of the nuclear age, strategist Bernard Brodie recognized our predicament when he said, "Nuclear weapons exist and they are incredibly destructive." Despite the end of the Cold War, thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert on both sides of the Atlantic. Plans to develop, deploy, and detonate nuclear weapons (for purposes of war prevention or war fighting) are informed by the ambiguous notion that nuclear war can be avoided by maintaining a balance of power. Policy-makers and decision-makers believe that once the balance of power is destroyed, a crisis will ensue, and if this crisis cannot be resolved with words, it is somehow necessary to use weapons. This idea is held as an historic inevitability, but the nuclear subculture is unaware of the highly problematic nature of their fundamental assumptions. Hirschbein entertains the possibility that the theory and practice of these policy-makers and decision-makers are informed by concepts at once ancient and metaphorical. He analyzes the primary and secondary metaphors invoked to conceptualize and manage nuclear weaponry. Hirschbein draws a striking parallel between dramatic changes in the ancient Greek account of conflict and the American conceptualization of nuclear weapons. Facing harrowing times, Thucydides avoided supernatural, Homeric imagery in favor of naturalistic metaphors to account for conflict - an account regarded as "eternal wisdom" by today's realist. Likewise, facing the Soviet challenge, American strategists abandoned supernatural Judeo-Christian accounts of nuclear weapons in favor of Thucydides' naturalistic tropes.
Introduction: A Faith-Based Nuclear Strategy; Realists are from Mars/Idealists are from Venus; What's the Story?; Newest Weapons/Oldest Metaphors; Like Nothing Else; The Balance of Power; Deterrence: Peace on Earth Without Good Will Toward Men; What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came?; Necessity: The Mother of Disaster; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Library of Congress: United States - Military policy
Library of Congress: Nuclear weapons - United States
Library of Congress: Strategy - Terminology
Library of Congress: Nuclear warfare - Terminology
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  • History of the Americas (HBJK)
  • Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 (HBLW3)
  • Nuclear weapons (JWMN)
  • Military history (HBW)
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  • (POL012000)
  • HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare (HIS027030)
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