Selective Nuclear Options in American and Soviet Strategic Policy
Author : Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Nuclear weapons
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Author : Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Nuclear weapons
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Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
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Author : Charles L. Glaser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400862027
With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to reassess basic questions of American nuclear strategy and force requirements. In a comprehensive analysis of these issues, Charles Glaser argues that even before the recent easing of tension with the Soviet Union, the United States should have revised its nuclear strategy, rejecting deterrent threats that require the ability to destroy Soviet nuclear forces and forgoing entirely efforts to limit damage if all-out nuclear war occurs. Changes in the Soviet Union, suggests Glaser, may be best viewed as creating an opportunity to make revisions that are more than twenty years overdue. Glaser's provocative work is organized in three parts. "The Questions behind the Questions" evaluates the basic factual and theoretical disputes that underlie disagreements about U.S. nuclear weapons policy. "Alternative Nuclear Worlds" compares "mutual assured destruction capabilities" (MAD)--a world in which both superpowers' societies are highly vulnerable to nuclear retaliation--to the basic alternatives: mutual perfect defenses, U.S. superiority, and nuclear disarmament. Would any basic alternatives be preferable to MAD? Drawing on the earlier sections of the book, "Decisions in MAD" addresses key choices facing American decision makers. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Terry Terriff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501717596
In 1974 Richard Nixon's defense secretary, James Schlesinger, announced that the United States would change its nuclear targeting policy from "assured destruction" to "limited nuclear options." In this account of the Schlesinger Doctrine based on newly declassified documents and extensive interviews with key actors, Terry Terriff challenges the Nixon administration's official explanation of why and how this policy innovation occurred.
Author : Keith B. Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429725884
This book critically examines U.S. attempts to establish a nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union and offers new approaches to dealing with the changing strategic environment. Dr. Payne maintains that the most influential theories of nuclear deterrence--Assured Vulnerability and Flexible Targeting—are unrealistic, given Soviet foreign policy and attitudes toward nuclear war, and no longer adequately meet the requirements of U.S. national security. Identifying an approach compatible with U.S. security commitments, he argues that future U.S. policy should focus on defeating the "Soviet theory of victory"--on threatening Soviet military forces and domestic and external political control assets, while also defending the U.S. against nuclear attack. The discussion covers recent developments, among them the "new nuclear strategy" of the Carter administration and President Reagan's new weapons program.
Author : Michael W. Kanzelberger
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Nuclear warfare
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Author : William C. Green
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1987-05-13
Category : History
ISBN :
Bibliografien henvender sig dels til forskere med speciel interesse for Sovjetunionens forsvarspolitik og dels til specialister i strategisk analyse, der har brug for at vide mere om Sovjets strategi og filosofi. Desuden appellerer bibliografien til personer med interesse for Sovjets atomvåbenpolitik.
Author : P. Edward Haley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429717903
Balanced and comprehensive in approach, this text assembles classic statements on nuclear strategy and arms control made by Soviet and U.S. policymakers, military thinkers, and opinion leaders during the last forty years. Major Soviet statements, rarely appearing in translation, reflect the disagreement over whether "victory" or "parity" is the goa
Author : Robert Jervis
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
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Author : Honoré Marc Catudal
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
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