After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, Chris Mark
blurted out:

I was discussing with a friend the Gar Alperovitz episode and remarking on how
regrettable it was that even in a military-oriented newsgroup visited by people
with an interest in Cold War history and whose lives have been directly
affected by his views, he is an unknown.

I remember reading stuff by him and Kolko in college.

Note that the timeframe of their publication encompasses the 1960s and the
birth of the "New Left."

I don't recall ever hearing of the "New Left."

Alperovitz argued that the bomb had been dropped on Japan to warn
Stalin against interfering with American plans for the postwar world.

We were trying to keep nuke secrets away from the DRPCBs from the
gitgo. Ike foreign policy of massive retaliation and containment were
pretty good indicators that we didn't want the DRPCBs interfering.

In 1975 came Paul Warnke's famous 1975 "Apes on a Treadmill"
essay in Foreign Policy, in which he called for global downsizing
of American power and an end to efforts to match Soviet military
strength--if we quit the arms race, the Soviets would, too.

FWIW, in 1960 just before Ike "shook the stick" for JFK's change of
command, he warned against the efforts of the military-industrial
complex trying to stay ahead of the soviets...for the economic health
of our nation.

Of course, the result of all this was defeat in Vietnam,

Mark Clodfelter's book, "The Limits of Air Power," wouldn't put the
blame on the "New Left."

Juvat