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Book Title: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Author: Francis J. Gavin
ISBN: 978-0-8157-3791-9
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2020
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Author: Adil Sultan
ISBN:978-3-030-01333-2
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan 2019
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