1st Edition
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy US Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century
By Stephen J. Cimbala
Copyright 2005
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 administration, having deposed the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, now points to a new nuclear "Axis... Read more
Introduction
Ch 1 Technology and Deterrence in the New World Order
Ch 2 Can Missile Defenses Overturn Deterrence?
Ch 3 Conventionalizing U.S. and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
Ch 4 Nuclear Proliferation and Causal Explanation: Who’s Right, and What’s at Stake?
Ch 5 Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: Survival and Danger
CONCLUSION
Biography
Stephen J. Cimbala
