Radar proximity fuzing and the Cold War paradigm

Summary form only given, as follows. This paper is an overview of the history of radar proximity fuze design with emphasis on fuzing designs for nuclear missiles & how the Cold War paradigm drove the requirements. Also covered is a discussion on the Cold War “chess game” driving the escalation of electronic counter measures, electronic counter-counter measures, etc. The focus is on design approaches used in the technically challenging era of the 1950s and early 1960s before the invention of integrated circuits & processors.