Nuclear Weapons and Strategy

TRAMA

nonproliferation, missile defenses, or preemptive war strategies cannot guarantee nuclear containment and the potential for a nuclear arms race in Asia among the already nuclear anointed and the nuclear aspiring states, creates the possibility of destabilizing an entire region, the author warns that U.S. and Soviet experience in the Cold War is not necessarily a normative one and should not encourage complacency on the part of policy makers. This book will constitute an essential reading for students of international relations, proliferation and security studies as well as for policy-makers and military strategists.

NOTE EDITORE

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 of Evil": Iran and North Korea. These nations and other rogue states, as well as terrorists, may pose key threats because they are "beyond deterrence", which was based on the credible fear of retaliation after attack. This new study places these and other developments, such as the clear potential for a new nuclear arms race in Asia, within the context of evolving US security policy. Detailing the important milestones in the development of US nuclear strategy and considering the present and future security dilemmas related to nuclear weapons this is a major new contribution to our understanding of the present international climate and the future. Individual chapters are devoted to the key issues of missile defenses, nuclear proliferation and Israel’s nuclear deterrent. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, international relations and US foreign policy.

SOMMARIO

1. Technology and Deterrence in the New World Order 2. Can Missile Defenses Overturn Deterrence? 3. Conventionalizing U.S. and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces 4. Nuclear Proliferation and Causal Explanation: Who’s Right, and What’s at Stake? 5. Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: Survival and Danger

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415701990
• Collana: Contemporary Security Studies
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 0.75 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 17 tables
• Pagine Arabe: 144