The 'denationalizations' and the ideology that lay behind them -- Unpreparedness for war -- Counter-attack and the conclusion of the conflict -- Suspicion hits the Jews -- Stalin's death -- The paradoxes of paranoid totalitarianism -- Final questions -- Notes -- 10 Fire that feeds fire -- War crimes and Allied double standards -- Collective paranoia and forms of government -- Airborne warfare as total war -- Poetry and romantic enthusiasm in the air war -- The first bombs of the Second World War -- The three phases of Allied bombing -- Douhet's predictions are proved wrong -- The bombing of Germany -- The bombing of Italy -- Notes -- 11 Further and further west -- War against an inferior race -- War between different races, total war -- The erroneous calculation of pre-emptive attack -- The impossibility of isolation -- Fear of encirclement -- A strategy founded on haste -- Suspicion and the missed opportunity -- Towards the atomic bomb -- Contagious fanaticism -- The range of options continues to narrow -- Hiroshima -- The diary of Michihiko Hachiya -- The withdrawal of projections and meeting the enemy -- More elation -- Nagasaki -- Rationalizations -- Secrecy -- Later justifications -- The Tokyo Trials -- The reawakening of Ajax -- Dr Hachiya's farewell -- Notes -- 12 A plan for the twenty-first century? -- Paranoia and the new century -- The Cold War -- The disappearance of the Soviet enemy -- The appearance of the Islamic enemy -- Paranoia takes the form of a government document -- The war caused by suspicion -- The responsibility of those who disseminate paranoid messages -- The contagiousness of paranoia -- The impact on civilian life -- Notes -- 13 Inconclusive thoughts -- Understanding evil -- Paranoia and psychopathy again -- Individual, mass and leader -- Three generations of mass media -- 'The Giant' -- Dictators -- Giving back medals