Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy /

Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy / / Charles L. Glaser.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Glaser, Charles L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1188
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • PART I: The Questions behind the Questions
  • CHAPTER TWO. Disputes over the U.S. Military Requirements of Nuclear Deterrence
  • CHAPTER THREE. Disputes about the International Political Consequences of Competing and Cooperating with the Soviet Union
  • PART II. Alternative Nuclear Worlds
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Why Even Good Defenses May Be Bad
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Why U.S. Superiority Is Probably Inferior to MAD
  • CHAPTER SIX. Why Disarmament Is Probably More Dangerous than MAD
  • PART III Decisions in MAD
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Does the United States Need Counterforce in MAD?
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Does the United States Need ICBMs?
  • CHAPTER NINE. Should the United States Deploy Limited Ballistic Missile Defenses?
  • CHAPTER TEN. What Type of Arms Control in MAD?
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conclusions
  • Index

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