1. Robert Osgood, NATO: The Entangling Alliance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) p. 349.
2. Former West German Defence Minister Georg Leber, quoted in Rolf Steinhaus, Soldat Diplomat (Herford: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1983) p. 171.
3. See Richard Hart Sinnreich, ‘NATO’s Doctrinal Dilemma’, Orbis, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer 1975) pp. 461–2.
4. See, for example, Lawrence Freedman, ‘NATO Myths’, Foreign Policy, No. 45 (Winter 1981–82) pp. 48–68; and the sources cited in note 5.
5. See Robert S. McNamara, ‘The Military Role of Nuclear Weapons: Perceptions and Misperceptions’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Fall 1983) pp. 59–80