04327oam 2200445z- 450 991016272290332120171019133902.00-9978965-3-1(CKB)3710000001043991(EXLCZ)99371000000104399120201216c2017uuuu -u- -engur|||||||||||From MAD to madness inside Pentagon nuclear war planning : memoir /by Paul H. Johnstone : introduction and commentary by Diana JohnstoneClarity Press0-9972870-9-8 Introduction / by Diana Johnstone -- Part 1. The spirit of the times -- The fog of war planning -- Memoirs of a humanist in the Pentagon / by Paul H. Johnstone -- Foreword: what this is all about -- The world of target planning -- Air targets intelligence -- Air targets doctrine -- Economic war potential doctrine applied to occupation policies -- Some problems and methods -- Playing games with nuclear war -- The Cold War atmosphere -- Games and bonuses -- The rise of fear -- Part 2. Imagining doomsday -- The fallout study -- The "humane alternative" -- The civilian morale study -- The strategic weapons study -- The tenor of the times -- The command and control dilemma -- Exploring "implications" -- Part 3. The critical incident studies -- The Laos crisis -- The Berlin Crisis -- Postface: Doomsday postponed / by Diana Johnstone."This deathbed memoir by Dr. Paul H. Johnstone, former senior analyst in the Strategic Weapons Evaluation Group (WSEG) in the Pentagon and a co-author of The Pentagon Papers, provides an authoritative analysis of the implications of nuclear war that remain insurmountable today. Indeed, such research has been kept largely secret, with the intention "not to alarm the public" about what was being cooked up. This is the story of how U.S. strategic planners in the 1950s and 1960s worked their way to the conclusion that nuclear war was unthinkable. It drives home these key understandings: - That whichever way you look at it -- and this book shows the many ways analysts tried to skirt the problem -- nuclear war means mutual destruction - That Pentagon planners could accept the possibility of totally destroying another nation, while taking massive destructive losses ourselves, and still conclude that "we would prevail". - That the supposedly "scientific answers" provided to a wide range of unanswerable questions are of highly dubious standing. - That official spheres neglect anything near a comparable effort to understand the "enemy" point of view, rather than to annihilate him, or to use such understanding to make peace. Dr. Johnstone's memoirs of twenty years in the Pentagon tell that story succinctly, coolly and objectively. While remaining highly secret - so much so that Dr. Johnstone himself was denied access to what he had written - these studies had a major impact on official policy. They contributed to a shift from the notion that the United States could inflict "massive retaliation" on its Soviet enemy to recognition that a nuclear exchange would bring about Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The alarming truth today is that these lessons seem to have been forgotten."--Provided by publisher.From MAD to MadnessNuclear warfareGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMilitary planningUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNuclear weaponsGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryStrategic forcesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryDeterrence (Strategy)History20th centuryCold WarUnited StatesMilitary policyHistory20th centuryUnited StatesOfficials and employeesBiographyNuclear warfareGovernment policyHistoryMilitary planningHistoryNuclear weaponsGovernment policyHistoryStrategic forcesHistoryDeterrence (Strategy)HistoryCold War.355.02/170973Johnstone Paul H(Paul Howard),1903-1981,1247839Johnstone Diana1934-BOOK9910162722903321From MAD to madness2892479UNINA04962nam 22007215 450 991029999270332120200705212749.03-319-08801-710.1007/978-3-319-08801-3(CKB)3710000000271818(EBL)1967934(SSID)ssj0001386644(PQKBManifestationID)11755228(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001386644(PQKBWorkID)11374407(PQKB)11209040(MiAaPQ)EBC1967934(DE-He213)978-3-319-08801-3(PPN)183096584(EXLCZ)99371000000027181820141103d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew Perspectives on Approximation and Sampling Theory Festschrift in Honor of Paul Butzer's 85th Birthday /edited by Ahmed I. Zayed, Gerhard Schmeisser1st ed. 2014.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Birkhäuser,2014.1 online resource (487 p.)Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis,2296-5009Description based upon print version of record.3-319-08800-9 Includes bibliographical references.Abstract Exact and Approximate Sampling Theorems -- Sampling in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space -- Boas-Type Formulas and Sampling in Banach Spaces with Applications to Analysis on Manifolds -- On Window Methods in Generalized Shannon Sampling Operators -- Generalized sampling approximation for multivariate discontinuous signals and applications to image processing -- Signal and System Approximation from General Measurements -- Confirmation PROCESS -- Sparse Signal Processing -- Signal Sampling and Testing Under Noise -- Superoscillations -- General Moduli of Smoothness and Approximation by Families of Linear Polynomial Operators -- Variation and approximation in multidimensional setting for Mellin integral operators -- The Lebesgue Constant for Sinc Approximations -- Six (Seven) problems in frame theory -- Five good reasons for complex-valued transforms in image processing -- Frequency Determination Using the Discrete Hermite Transform -- Fractional Operators, Dirichlet Averages and Splines -- A Distributional Approach to Generalized Stochastic Processes on Locally Compact Abelian Groups -- On a discrete Turán problem for l-1 radial functions.Paul Butzer, who is considered the academic father and grandfather of many prominent mathematicians, has established one of the best schools in approximation and sampling theory in the world. He is one of the leading figures in approximation, sampling theory, and harmonic analysis. Although on April 15, 2013, Paul Butzer turned 85 years old, remarkably, he is still an active research mathematician. In celebration of Paul Butzer’s 85th birthday, New Perspectives on Approximation and Sampling Theory is a collection of invited chapters on approximation, sampling, and harmonic analysis written by students, friends, colleagues, and prominent active mathematicians. Topics covered include approximation methods using wavelets, multi-scale analysis, frames, and special functions. New Perspectives on Approximation and Sampling Theory requires basic knowledge of mathematical analysis, but efforts were made to keep the exposition clear and the chapters self-contained. This volume will appeal to researchers and graduate students in mathematics, applied mathematics and engineering, in particular, engineers working in signal and image processing.Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis,2296-5009Approximation theoryFunctions, SpecialSignal processingImage processingSpeech processing systemsApproximations and Expansionshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M12023Special Functionshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M1221XSignal, Image and Speech Processinghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T24051Approximation theory.Functions, Special.Signal processing.Image processing.Speech processing systems.Approximations and Expansions.Special Functions.Signal, Image and Speech Processing.510511.4515.5621.382Zayed Ahmed Iedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtSchmeisser Gerhardedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910299992703321New perspectives on approximation and sampling theory1409854UNINA