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100		1	_aDUNN David H
245		0	_aThe politics of threat: _bminuteman vulnerability in American national security policy
260			_aBasingstoke: _bMacmillan, _c1997
300			_a289p.
520		3	_aExamines the rise in the 1950s of American perceptions of vulnerability to Soviet ICBM attack. These perceptions persisted until the 1980s when Gorbachev rose to power and challenged the notion of confrontation. The perceived threats evaporated yet without being resolved in the way that 30 years of cold war had suggested would be essential.
650			_aICBM
650			_aTHREAT PERCEPTION
650			_aUNITED STATES
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