1st Edition
On Nuclear Deterrence The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan
By Tanya Ogilvie-White
Copyright 2012
407 Pages
by
Routledge
407 Pages
by
Routledge
This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan’s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence during the last years of the Cold War, became known as the ‘high priest of deterrence’: his... Read more
Introduction; Part One The logic and morality of nuclear deterrence: Deterrence stability; The morality of nuclear deterrence; Part Two Strategic decisions: LRTNF and Trident: NATO long-range theatre nuclear forces; The UK and Trident; Part Three Arms control and disarmament: Arms control and non-proliferation; Nuclear disarmament; Concluding remarks; Appendix 1 NATO; Appendix 2 Trident; Notes.
Biography
Dr. Tanya Ogilvie-White joined IISS in June 2010 on a one-year research fellowship, funded by the Stanton Nuclear Security Program. As part of the IISS Nonproliferation and Disarmament group, she is leading the Michael Quinlan Project, editing a book of Sir Michael Quinlan’s correspondence on nuclear deterrence. She is a member of the Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), and Associate Editor of the U.S.-based journal, Asian Security. She is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
