Nuclear weapons and strategy : U.S. nuclear policy for the twenty-first century /

Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush administr...

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Main Author: Cimbala, Stephen J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Contemporary security studies.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Technology and Deterrence in the New World Order
  • 2. Can Missile Defenses Overturn Deterrence?
  • 3. Conventionalizing U.S. and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
  • 4. Nuclear Proliferation and Causal Explanation: Who's Right, and What's at Stake?
  • 5. Nuclear Proliferation in Asia: Beyond Control?