The Second Nuclear Age


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A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age. In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises. Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics.




American Strategy for the Nuclear Age


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Excerpt from American Strategy for the Nuclear Age Walter F.Hahn is executive editor of Orbis, a quarterly journal of world affairs published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, and a research assistant of the Institute. A graduate of Temple University, where he also received an M.A. degree, he is a frequent contributor to magazines and journals, including the New Leader and the Yale Review. Mr. Hahn assisted in the preparation of the curriculum for the first National Strategy Seminar for Reserve Officers, held at the National War College in Washington, D.C., 1959. John C.Neff, Colonel, United States Army Reserve, is Chief of Staff of the 77 th Infantry Division, located in New York City, one of six combat divisions in the Army Reserve. A veteran of five campaigns in the European Theater during World War II, he served in the Intelligence Section of the83d Infantry Division. A graduate of Kenyon College in 1936, he has published articles, book reviews, and stories in the New Mexico Quarterly Review, the Infantry Journal, the Army Information Digest, the Sunday New York Times Book Review, and Collier's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age


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The world has entered a second nuclear age shaped by rising nuclear states and military technologies. Gregory Koblentz argues that the United States should work with the other nuclear-armed states to manage threats to nuclear stability in the near term and establish processes for multilateral arms control efforts over the longer term.










American Strategy for the Nuclear Age (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from American Strategy for the Nuclear Age Lieutenant General Arthur G. Trudeau, u.s.a. Steel and Petroleum Production - The Soviet Labor force-the Soviet Industrial Surge - Comparative Trade Positions - Economics as a Controlled Soviet Weapon - The gross-national-product - Debt Ratio - Increasing Our Growth Rate - Pressing Our Eco nomic Advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.