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Никсон позаимствовал как минимум название своей теории Первое широкое исследование и обсуждение угроз Никсона, его планов и секретной ядерной тревоги осенью 1969 г., а также никсоновской стратегии безумца см. в книге Seymour Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (New York: Summit Books, 1983). Затем см. Scott D. Sagan and Jeremi Suri, “The Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in October 1969,” International Security 27, no. 4 (Spring 2003): 150–183, и William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball, Nixon’s Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015), которые значительно расширяют первоначальные статьи Берра и Кимболла. См. также “Nixon, Kissinger, and the Madman Strategy during Vietnam War,” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 587, May 29, 2015, nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb517-Nixon-Kissinger-and-the-Madman-Strategy-during-Vietnam-War/; “Nixon’s Nuclear Ploy: The Vietnam Negotiations and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test, October 1969,” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 81, December 23, 2002, nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB81/index.htm; “Nixon White House Considered Nuclear Options Against North Vietnam, Declassified Documents Reveal: Nuclear Weapons, the Vietnam War, and the ‘Nuclear Taboo,’ ” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 195, July 31, 2006, nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/index.htm.