1st Edition

Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace

Edited By Yehoshafat Harkabi Copyright 1966
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

315 Pages
by Routledge

This book began as a personal effort to comprehend the effect of nuclear weapons on the current era and its international system. Nuclear weapons have not merely revolutionized the military sphere but havce also left their stamp on the world order. Knowledge of the basic principles of nuclear strategy has become a prerequisite to understanding world events. Consequently, no country can remain... Read more
1: Nuclear Strategy; 2: Deterrence; 3: Strategic Concepts: Surprise, Preemption and Stability; 4: Strategic Doctrines: The Size of Forces Required; 5: Strategic Doctrines: Composition of Forces; 6: Limited War—Conventional and Nuclear; 7: Limited Strategic War—Controlled Nuclear Reprisal; 8: The Universe of Violence; 9: Communication of the Threat; 10: Alliance in the Nuclear Era—NATO; 11: Proliferation and the Outbreak of War; 12: Disarmament and Arms Control; 13: Complexities of a Nuclear World

Biography

Yehoshafat Harkabi