State of Doom Bernard Brodie, The Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World

State of Doom explores Brodie's evolution as a theorist and his response to the technological innovations that transformed warfare from WWII to the Vietnam War. It situates his theoretical development within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), as Brodie came to be known as "America's Clausewitz." While his first influential works focused on naval strategy, his most lasting impact came within the field of nuclear strategic thinking. Brodie helped conceptualize America's strategy of deterrence, later taking into account America's loss of nuclear monopoly, thermonuclear weapons, and intercontinental missiles.

1. Introduction. Before The Bomb:  Brodie's Early Thougths On War And History - Piercing the Fog of Strategic and Historic Ambiguity2. After the Bomb: Restoring Order in the Age of Absolute War3. After the Bomb: Preserving Order in the Age of Apocalyptic War4. Rethinking the Unthinkable: New Thinking on Escalation and Limited War5. Clausewitz for America: Reuniting War and Politics in the Nuclear AgeBibliography