Makers of Nuclear Strategy deals with the very foundations of contemporary strategic studies. The focus is on individuals who influenced nuclear policy in the 1950s and early 1960s, such as Bernard Brodie and Henry Kissinger in the US, P.M.S. Blackett and Anthony Buzzard in Britain, Andre Beaufre in France, and V.D. Sokolovskii in the Soviet Union. The nine studies examine the ideas of these nine leading strategic thinkers over the past four decades within the context of current debates on nuclear strategy.