Nuclear Statecraft : : History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age / / Francis J. Gavin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gavin, Francis J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply conseque...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. History, Theory, and Statecraft in the Nuclear Age
• 2. The Myth of Flexible Response
• 3. Nuclear Weapons, Statecraft, and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
• 4. Blasts from the Past
• 5. Nuclear Nixon
• 6. That Seventies Show
• 7. Same as It Ever Was?
• 8. Global Zero, History, and the "Nuclear Revolution"
• Notes
• Index