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Strategic Options for the Early Eighties: What Can Be Done; Strategic Deterrence in the 1980s

Edited by William R. van Cleave and W. Scott Thompson
Roger D. Speed
Reviewed by By Andrew J. Pierre
Fall 1979
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Edited by William R. van Cleave and W. Scott Thompson
National Strategy Information Center
1979
200 pp.
$4.00
Roger D. Speed
Hoover Press
1979
174 pp.
$7.95

These two contributions to the debate on strategy emphasize the growing vulnerability of U.S. land-based nuclear forces to a Soviet strike in the early to mid-1980s. The value of the Scott Thompson-Van Cleave book lies in its listing of specific steps that might be taken, ranging from "quick fixes" such as accelerating cruise missile development to ballistic missile defense and civil defense.