Barry S. Zellen is a Researcher at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA, where he is Research Director of the Arctic Security Project. The managing editor of Culture and Conflict Review and Strategic Insights journals, he has published several books, including On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (Lexington Books, 2009) and Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Praeger, 2009).

• 1. Introduction. Before The Bomb: Brodie's Early Thoughts On War And History - Piercing the Fog of Strategic and Historic Ambiguity; 2. After the Bomb: Restoring Order in the Age of Absolute War; 3. After the Bomb: Preserving Order in the Age of Apocalyptic War; 4. Rethinking the Unthinkable: New Thinking on Escalation and Limited War; 5. Clausewitz for America: Reuniting War and Politics in the Nuclear Age; Bibliography.

"A rich and profound introduction to the evolution and philosophy of modern warfare and nuclear policy.  It's a chilling account, but it also reminds us how some great thinkers have worked behind the scenes to keep us from blowing ourselves to kingdom come.  Let's hope the wisdom preserved in this document likewise helps our descendants to avoid Armageddon, if only to let them have a deep future in which to heal the environmental damage we'll be leaving them, as well." -- Curt Stager, Natural Sciences, Paul Smith's College